Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 15:07:08 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.Org 7.0 port? Message-ID: <200605041507.08581.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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> Mark Linimon wrote on May 3rd: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:47:43AM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > X.Org 7 adds no new functionality (it's identical to 6.9, other than the > > source layout and config/build system). Nobody in their right mind is > > going to expend the hours required to port this for no net gain. > Fortunately, the FreeBSD committers that work on our X servers are not > in their right minds :-) Work on on creating individual ports and testing > the results has been going on in the background. This is a volunteer project, of course, and everyone works on what she pleases, but could not a share of those minds be directed to *support* of the existing ports? The ratio of questions to responses on the freebsd-x11 mailing list is quite low -- most of the threads consist of either just the questions (without follow-ups) or with multiple posts lamenting lack of support. Issues with radeon cards appear to be the most pressing, but other problems exist too. I'm not sure, if anything *can* be done about it, but it certainly *should* be :-) -mi
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