From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 21:46:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE40D16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:46:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7C543D3F for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:46:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i6NLkfE8032465; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:46:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4101872E.9020604@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:46:22 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anholt References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> <4101839D.6030108@centtech.com> <1090619066.2748.46.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <1090619066.2748.46.camel@leguin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:46:42 -0000 Eric Anholt wrote: >On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:31, Eric Anderson wrote: > > >>Eric Anholt wrote: >> >> >> >>>OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. >>>No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has >>>been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of >>>FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade >>>by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. >>> >>> >>> >>Sorry if I'm in the stone age here, but I why is this better than >>XFree86? Just curious. >> >> > >It's newer than our old XFree86 4.3 and supports far more hardware. >It's also where current X developers are working, so it's where new >features will be first. It also doesn't have the new XFree86 license. >You could read xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG and xc/ChangeLog >to see what actually changed. (Hint: a lot.) > Cool! So I can expect all the same stuff that works in the -snap version (4.3.99 I think?) of XFree86 to work on X.Org stuff? In particular, I need the laptop/lcd screen turning off feature that works in -snap but not the built in XFree86 with acpi. I'll give it a try and report problems.. Thanks Eric for the hard work! Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------