From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 21 11:50:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu (gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu [129.186.232.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FD637B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from 137.org (howe-193-222.dhcp.iastate.edu [129.186.193.222]) by gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC2BF7; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:50:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A6B3D84.58831A5@137.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:50:28 -0600 From: Chris X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: David Syphers , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.2 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010121013438.00ba9100@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> <20010121023208.A63679@citusc17.usc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:51:05AM -0600, David Syphers wrote: > > > the binaries from a directory labeled "FreeBSD 5.x". So I tried the ports, > > and it built fine for a long time, and then after about 35300 lines of > > output to the screen, ran into > > > > make: don't know how to make ../../../fonts/encodings/encodings.dir. Stop > > *** Error code 2 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/xc/fonts/bdf. > > The port should be working, but since it's not for you, just add the package. > > pkg_add -r XFree86 If you are currently running 4.0.1, I would seriously recommend skipping this minor revision. I have run into a multitude of problems with it, and am now back right where I started. One, is the lack of DRM support for the matrox cards anymore. The kernel module has a version number in it, which is less than that required by the DRM system. It won't insert the module until you update this--so it appears that no one is actually using it. Another, is that there seem to be delays in the event stream, making interactive performance terrible. One example: When I go to move a window, I start dragging it, moving the outline as I go. Then I unclick, yet the frame is still visible. I actually have to move the mouse more to get the window move to take effect. There are other cases, where it appears to lose events all together--like clicking on windows to raise them, or with menus. There were also a handful of other things, that I don't recall offhand now. These problems were observed on a 4.2-STABLE box, not too long ago. I have compiled the source from scratch (with and without matrox DRM stuff), as well as using the stock 4.0.2_5 package, both of which behave the same. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message