Re: general bad behaviour when adding or removing displays
Re: general bad behaviour when adding or removing displays
- Subject: Re: general bad behaviour when adding or removing displays
- From: Jens Nöckel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:03:51 -0700
Since you mentioned fink, here is my experience: beware of font
problems!
I have upgraded 2 machines to Tiger but am waiting with an upgrade on
my laptop because not all the programs I depend on have made it into
fink's 10.4 tree yet. For example, with the new X11 1.1, my
fink-installed LyX (the LaTeX-based editor software, x-forms based),
was unable to display math formulas correctly on screen (e.g., the
character greek \alpha appears as an @ sign, etc). This was because
some fonts were gone from X11 (must have been overwitten in the
upgrade). The problem can be fixed, but it's a band-aid: I made sure I
was fully updated with fink and then unistalled lyx. After that, I
looked for the .deb file for lyx in the /sw/fink/10.3 directory and
reinstalled it using "dpkg -i lyx_1.3.5-1_darwin-powerpc.deb" . This
seems to have worked, but it goes to show that not everything fixes
itself automatically yet...
Jens
On May 16, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Chris wrote:
Iam still on 10.2.8 with the same problem. Is there any easy
workaround available?
No - at least I have never found one nor have the other people I have
talked to that experienced this problem - it appears to be a OS
problem.
Since upgrading to Tiger this no longer happens.
Let me ask about general experiences with X functionality when
upgrading to Tiger (this may be a stupid question, but I am not
familiar with technical "details"):
Can I be confident that all my current X-applications (under Xdarwin
on 10.2.8, most of them installed via fink) will be working fine with
Tigers X, or do I have to go through a tricky updating/configuration
marathon with my apps?? I cannot really afford to spend too much time
on that now...
I would not be confident of that at all.
I personally have not had any problems with X and my X programs on
Tiger but going from 10.2.8 --> 10.4 is not as trivial as some people
might think and 10.4 has broken some of my apps. (updates are on the
way from the respective companies)
It is an easy upgrade to perform but it may break some of your
applications.
If you have the resources I would reccomend cloning to a bootable
external drive and then (after verifying the external clone is
bootable and complete) I would upgrade to Tiger and see if it broke
anything.
If not - great your all set.
If it did - then you have the option to revert back to your backup.
Be sure and check your hardware is supported by Tiger prior to
purchasing.
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