From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 18 20:48:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8AC16A400 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 20:48:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbsnyder@fanplastic.org) Received: from sumo.dreamhost.com (sumo.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A57113C43E for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 20:48:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbsnyder@fanplastic.org) Received: from spaceymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (d0618442.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.66]) by sumo.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B82A1876F2 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 13:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wireless-165-124-117-57.nuwlan.northwestern.edu (wireless-165-124-117-57.nuwlan.northwestern.edu [165.124.117.57]) by spaceymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3132816BB for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 13:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <464E0B62.8060505@fanplastic.org> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:24:02 -0500 From: James Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4pre (Macintosh/20070517) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 20:48:45 -0000 Another successful upgrade to report, although not without some trials and tribulations. The end result is that I have things going with the NVIDIA drivers, compositing works (I've even fired up Compiz and though that's not 100% stable, it's quite usable so long as a few things are avoided. Window decorations died once while switching back and forth to another virtual terminal and GL screensavers hang up (first frame rendered, subsequent ones do not). Regarding the trials and tribulations. I did not, at first, get the message that one shouldn't overlay the testing tree on top of the older tree, and did the first libXft upgrade at that point. That failed and subsequently I needed to do a series of pkgdb -F & portupgrade -a commands along with a few make deinstalls to make everything happy. I could post the log of going through all that, however, it's incredibly long, and likely a bit on the confusing side due to not giving up on any dead-ends :-) Merge executed, had to then manually do the simlink. After that, I had trouble with the default font fixed and cursor not being found. I needed to install the appropriate misc-misc & misc-cursor fonts to get that going appropriately. I also had to manually install mouse and keyboard input drivers after the new xorg drivers directory was initially created during the upgrade process as a file rather than a directory. Best. -jsnyder