From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 4 5:25:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7236B37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 05:25:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (dav46.sea2.hotmail.com [207.68.164.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F5943FB1 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 05:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kmays2000@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 05:25:25 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [24.197.166.206] Reply-To: "Ken Mays" From: "Ken Mays" To: "Igor Pokrovsky" , "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: "Daniel Eischen" , References: <723002BB-4E42-11D7-90DE-000A9566C46A@we.lc.ehu.es> Subject: Re: Is XFree86 4.3.0 going to be in 4.8? -nt- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:25:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Mar 2003 13:25:25.0657 (UTC) FILETIME=[841DD090:01C2E251] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Would the FreeBSD team consider the benefits of integrating Xfree86 v4.3.x for v4.8?!? The upgrade that was done on the video drivers alone was worth it for me. -Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: "Igor Pokrovsky" Cc: "Daniel Eischen" ; Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Is XFree86 4.3.0 going to be in 4.8? -nt- Probably, there are several Radeon 7500 chips with different IDs, and some recent ones are not being recognized by XFree86 4.2.1. BTW, I think that 4.8-RELEASE should include XFree86 4.3, which supports additional harware (ATI Radeon 9x00 models, for example), even if that implies a delay of one or two weeks. El martes, 4 marz, 2003, a las 09:38 Europe/Madrid, Igor Pokrovsky escribió: >> With all the problems supposedly fixed in 4.3 (especially the >> ATI drivers (*)), it might be worth it to delay 4.8 a few days just >> to include this port. >> >> (*) I can confirm that 4.3 works with my ATI Radeon 7500 whereas >> it doesn't with 4.2.1. > > It is strange, that your ATI card is not working with 4.2.1 > I have the same card and with the latest port of XFree it is working > fine, even DRI is perfect. -- ***** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ***** ***** "Go ahead... make my day" -- Harry Callahan ***** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message