Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 19:38:00 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey Message-ID: <20140106193800.3b3dc86b878dc69453ff67f0@embarqmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52CAD9CA.1020304@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <52CAD9CA.1020304@rainbow-runner.nl>
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On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:28:58 +0100 Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> wrote: > Greetings! > > This is a weird call for testers. > > First off before the real CFT. We are interested if people are still > using 8.x for there desktop. Is there a specific reason for not updating > to 9.x or 10.x? > > So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for > people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. We know > that the graphics with the 2.7.1 intel driver are horribly broken (lots > of artifacts) so people don't need to test that, but what is the state > of the other xorg video drivers with cairo 1.12? If problems arise after > the update, a screenshot and details about installed ports and your > hardware should be enough. But if your using the intel driver with old > xorg please chime in too, this will give us a beter idea about the user > base. I'm using 8.4-STABLE on a box which has the on-board intel graphics and uses the xorg-7.7 / xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_6 driver. It seems to work reasonably for a fluxbox desktop although I do see occasional artifacts. I never expect much from on-board video. The information at http://bsdstats.org/bt/releases.html might be helpful since it shows quite a few 8.x users. I was a little surprised that the intel driver usage was among the higher numbers (512) for drivers being reported ( http://bsdstats.org/ports.php?category=93 ). I'm dragging my feet on updating to 10.x because of the large block of time needed to rebuild everything or to do a new install. There's still some time left before EOL of 8.x ( June 30, 2015 ) so I suspect that there will be others that are slow to update. It was only the EOL of 6.x that pushed me to 8.x. I tend to live on the trailing-edge ;-) Randy
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