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nggalai

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2004-08-01

Posts: 215

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Xorg 7: Cleanup of Xorg 6.x

Hi there,

I was just wondering what directories/files can be safely deleted from my installation after the successful move to Xorg 7. Can /usr/X11R6 be completely removed after the upgrade, or is there stuff that still needs to be there for compatibility reasons?

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vacant

Member

From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: Xorg 7: Cleanup of Xorg 6.x

I've deleted /usr/X11R6.

xorg 7 has been fine with the following so far: vesa, ati, nv, savage, and nvidia.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Xorg 7: Cleanup of Xorg 6.x

I removed /usr/X11R6 on my system as it was only containing fonts that where installed in the new location (/usr/share/fonts) or that I installed manually. You should do a pacman -Qo on the files in /usr/X11R6 to see to which package they belong.  Maybe you are using packages that were installed in /usr/X11R6 but have not yet been upgraded to xorg7.

oliv

Member

Registered: 2005-04-17

Posts: 58

Re: Xorg 7: Cleanup of Xorg 6.x

I made a fresh install of Arch linux. So without /usr/X11R6 directory.

I found some problems running glxgear or glxinfo (no direct rendering). But the xorg logs say that direct rendering is enabled.

I just created the softlink between  /usr/X11R6/modules -> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ to fix this issue.