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Date:      Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:15:44 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1020564946.7a74b6@mired.org>
To:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <15565.65104.828908.383127@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <1020132402.59591.39.camel@gurney.reilly.home>
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In <1020132402.59591.39.camel@gurney.reilly.home>, Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> typed:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 11:17, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > 
> > If you actually do run into problems with the way the XFree86 4.2.0 got 
> > integrated, give a holler.
> First biggie: the build doesn't seem to have the interactive business
> anymore.  That would be well and good, if it worked properly.  I don't
> know what happened, but portupgrade removed up my old XFree864.1
> installation, including all of my config files in /etc/X11, and then the
> new version didn't install a new set.  Aargh.  I had to dig an old copy
> of /etc/X11 off a backup CD I'd made earlier.  I still don't know what
> magic was really required to make the port install the config files.

Everything but /etc/XF86Config moved to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Everything
"just worked" for me after the upgrade, without having to install
anything in /etc/X11.

> Second biggie: I have a Matrox MGA G200 video card that was well
> supported in earlier releases.  The new release doesn't work at all if
> compiled without the WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER=yes flag in make.conf.  The
> server whinges that it can't find MGA_HAL_something.so.foo.  So,
> re-compiling with the flag set builds a server that runs, but that (my
> guess) hangs the PCI bus.  The screen goes black, a few seconds pass in
> which no input of any sort works, and then the system does a hard
> reboot.

Sorry, but I can't help with that one.

	<mike
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