Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:17:34 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86 4.3.0 Message-ID: <20030306091734.GC86982@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <20030306091057.GB86982@sr.se> References: <20030305151914.GB58739@sr.se> <1046883464.635.26.camel@leguin> <200303052336.47779.wes@softweyr.com> <1046940758.611.29.camel@leguin> <20030306091057.GB86982@sr.se>
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:10:57AM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:52:38AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:36, Wes Peters wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:57, Eric Anholt wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 07:19, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > > > I find it working very fine on my troublesome 5.0-CURRENT > > > > > box. I've had big problems for some weeks getting 4.2 > > > > > to work. I gave up the other day, but 4.3.0 worked > > > > > straight "out of the box", if you can say so after a > > > > > portupgrade XFree86 > > > > > > > > > > What didn't work was the installation of XFree86-FontServer > > > > > but I can live without that, I hope. > > > > > > > > Okay, got that fixed, it'll be in the -8 diff. (got to run to class). > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Is this working with the nvidia driver? I gotta track down that PCI TNT2 > > > card for my -current machine... > > > > Are you talking about the binary driver? If it's a proper XFree86 > > module and XFree86 didn't screw up compatibility (I don't think they > > did), it should continue working, but it could do things that would > > prevent it from working in a new server. > > > > I haven't tested cards besides the radeon due to lack of time so far. > > > > The -9 diff is up (http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/files.html) and I > > haven't had any reports of problems with it so far. If you get X 4.3.0 > > working with it in the next couple of days, it would be great if people > > could mail me and mention what card, if they had to change anything from > > a 4.2.0 installation to get it to work, and briefly how they've tested > > it (i.e. started up gnome2 and did something, not just "it built" or > > "startx works") > > I did a "dirty" thing and just ran the new patch on top of the > already patched system. Got some complaints that the patch was > there already, and was it OK. So I answered yes to all of it and > the patch applied on the missing parts. And since the system was > updated yesterday with the -7 patch, it was a few parts left. > XFree86-FontServer was one of them, and when I run > `portupgrade XFree86-FontServer` it does nothing, no upgrade. Answering to my own question. It was much better to re-cvsup the ports and apply the patch again. So that thing is working and the system is updating the XFree86-FontServer now. Sorry for the noise. But the next thing still applies! > > Any suggestions? All the other parts are working though, except > for xdpyinfo which gives a lot of output but gives this strange > output: > > # xdpyinfo > name of display: :0.0 > version number: 11.0 > vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc > vendor release number: 0 > XFree86 version: 0.0.0 > -- cut -- > > This is a 4.7-STABLE machine or should I say 4.8-RC which it is. > > By the way /var/log/Xfree86.0.log says: > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 > Release Date: 27 February 2003 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8-RC i386 [ELF] > Build Date: 05 March 2003 > > > -- > Gunnar Flygt, SR > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Gunnar Flygt, Postmaster SR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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