Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:21:40 +0100 From: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> To: Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for Testing] X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <367b2c981003111021p30e5883esddf2207acbf7f353@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100311134413.GH19740@bsdcrew.de> References: <20100311134413.GH19740@bsdcrew.de>
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2010/3/11 Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Call for Testing Xorg 7.5 > > Howdy! > > We're happy to announce that Xorg 7.5 is ready > for public testing. > > The ATI and Intel drivers were patched to work with > the new server, please report any problems to us! > The drivers for Vesa, NV and NVIDIA have been tested > thoroughfully and seem to work fine. > > A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: Unfortunately you'll have > to compile gcc 4.2+ first because the X.org Team doesn't > support gcc 3.X longer, We're strongly recommand you to > update your System to 7.X or above. > > Please take a look on our Wikipage. There you can find > the svn repo to checkout X.org ports. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5 I am testing the repo (revision 120) since the last CFT. I'm using FreeBSD 8-STABLE amd64 with KDE, proprietary nvidia drivers (beta) and KDE 4.4 with OpenGL compositing enabled. After a "portupgrade -a" for the new xorg ports (not -af), I only did a "portupgrade -f nvidia-driver" and all is working without problems. Thanks ! > > A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real > portstree could be found here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge > > The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script. > Please set the KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org > ports. > > After merging please try > > portupgrade -af \* > portmaster -af > > Please report any problems and issus to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org. > > Thanks to beat@, rnoland@, fluffy@ for their help. > > Happy Updating! > > - - Martin > > - -- > > +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ > | =A0PGP =A0 =A0: 0xB1E6FCE9 =A0| =A0Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de =A0| > | =A0Skype =A0: splash_111 =A0| =A0Mail =A0 : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | > +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ > | =A0 =A0 =A0 Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0| > +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuY860ACgkQdLJIhLHm/OkENgCeOb5NbYlQaYc50Rh+EmWcdhH8 > WKgAoJEsl+YcvdTa2KKpiOFuENuW6S6I > =3DHVVi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."
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