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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:24:21 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xorg-server 1.7.7
Message-ID:  <20101108192421.518f8d9d@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CD831CE.9030401@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <4CD7C15D.2010203@icyb.net.ua> <20101108155248.GD17517@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <4CD82011.20509@icyb.net.ua> <201011081817.31686.christof.schulze@gmx.com> <4CD831CE.9030401@icyb.net.ua>

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On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:22:22 +0200
Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:

> on 08/11/2010 19:17 Christof Schulze said the following:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >>>> Oh, forgot a need to simply bump port revisions of all xorg driver
> >>>> ports. That's perhaps a little bit laborious, but doesn't require
> >>>> any special skills. Or did you have something else in mind?
> > more than just laborious. It will break at least the Intel driver as 
> > intel is now GEM only which is not available on FreeBSD yet.
> 
> What exactly will break this?
> Do you mean xorg-server-1.7.7 *requires* newer version of xf86-video-intel than
> what we have now in the ports?
> Because I don't have such an impression.
> 

AFAIK the server version has no relevance to problems caused by
Linux-centric driver development.

I installed 1.7.7. on September 29th and didn't need to touch the
installed (admittedly radeon) graphics driver.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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