Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:46:22 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <4101872E.9020604@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1090619066.2748.46.camel@leguin> References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> <4101839D.6030108@centtech.com> <1090619066.2748.46.camel@leguin>
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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