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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:13:48 +0100
From:      Juan =?iso-8859-1?b?UmFt824=?= Molina Menor <listjm@club-internet.fr>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr>
Subject:   [Call for testers] Update to xorg-server 1.14
Message-ID:  <54880ECC.4070109@club-internet.fr>

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> On 07.12.2014 12:37, Juan Ramón Molina Menor wrote:
>> The update is breaking compatibility with an AGP NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
>> XT (NV31) supported by the nvidia-driver-173 driver. See below:
>
> Quick update: the last version of the xserver 1.14 patch includes an
> update to nvidia-driver* ports:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/ports-xserver-1.14.patch
>
> This is untested because I don't have the hardware. NVIDIA owners, could
> you please report if it works?

Hi Jean-Sébastien. Yes, it works, I have reported it in Bugzilla.


> With the xserver 1.14 update, nvidia-driver-71 and nvidia-driver-96 will
> be removed because NVIDIA doesn't provide any update to support xserver
> 1.13+.
>
> Also, please note that nvidia-driver-173 includes support for xserver
> up-to 1.15 included. Therefore, it will be removed with the future
> update to xserver 1.16+.

I understand. Could you please explain if it would suffice to block 
future upgrades to xorg-server 1.16 to continue using the old driver?

Thanks for the hard work!
Juan



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