Someone Explain: Whats going on X.org/XFree

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:31:44PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> XFree86 4.3.0 has been removed and replaced with X.org X11.  
> There's no useful reason to ship 2 X11 implementations in one
> product.

I just went through an exercise of installing xorg-x11 set.
When 'ttmkfdir-3.0.9-10' is present (no newer one available
as far as I can see) one gets:

error: Failed dependencies:
        XFree86-font-utils < 4.2.99.2-0.20021126.3 conflicts with ttmkfdir-3.0.9-10

but with 'ttmkfdir' removed:

error: Failed dependencies:
        /usr/bin/ttmkfdir is needed by xorg-x11-truetype-fonts-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.4
        /usr/bin/ttmkfdir is needed by xorg-x11-xfs-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.4

Eventually I installed the whole set adding '--nodeps'. :-)  Oh,
well.

> When you upgrade to xorg-x11, it automatically
> obsoletes and uninstalls the previous XFree86 packages (any
> version).

It does that with such enthusiasm that "/usr/X11R6/lib" vanished
from /etc/ld.so.conf and on attempt to start a server I was greeted
with:

xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
xinit: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

The fact that xfs was not running was only a minor detail after
these attractions. :-)

More troublesome aspect are that after fixing the above the
first try with Radeon 7000/VE caused a loss of synchronization
with a monitor showing only "Out of range" in big letters.
The second one succeeded and differences in logs from both tries
are not very illuminating.

Other thing is that previously I was seeing with 'glxgears'
over 100 fps (not much, I know) but now this is only some 50 fps.
Ouch!

   Michal