Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:15:44 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@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> References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020427221418.J56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020427135344.D89190@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020428104843.K56612@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org> <20020428111119.B77837@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280117.g3S1H2DV055561@intruder.bmah.org> <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 -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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