From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 18:31:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C84916A4CE; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:31:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E5343D49; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:31:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owen.g@onlinehome.de) Received: from [212.227.126.155] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BqFgH-0005Rt-00; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:31:05 +0200 Received: from [217.235.116.3] (helo=[192.168.1.250]) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BqFgG-0007j4-00; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:31:05 +0200 Message-ID: <41094335.4020405@onlinehome.de> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:34:29 +0200 From: "Owen.G" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tilman Linneweh References: <410909CB.3060105@onlinehome.de> <20040729165349.GA45316@arved.at> In-Reply-To: <20040729165349.GA45316@arved.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:4e7b6bfadbfaa9d59ebe2d9dce9eb48d cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:31:42 -0000 Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for "5.2-CURRENT/i386" and "5.2.1-RELEASE/i386": version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 True, www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html#4 does say: 'Summary of new features in 4.4.0. "A new driver for several VIA integrated graphics chipsets has been added."' and offers a source code download. I bought this PC so that, as a newbie, I don't twat the "working" copy of M$ on my other PC and to always have a working PC with a browser. CVSup and installing from ports is (only just) within my abilities (if nothing complains) - there's no way I'd be able to install from a tarball. Besides, isn't "Ports" the "preferred" installation medium for FreeBSD? So my question remains, how long for XFree86-4.4 in ports? 5.3-RELEASE/i386" perhaps? Is it also stupid of me to have a LCD monitor capable of only 1280x768 when the VIA driver documentation at www.xfree86.org says the VIA driver's display resolutions are: Option "PanelSize" "string" Specify the size (width x height) of the LCD panel attached to the system. Sizes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1400x1050 are supported. Owen ==== Tilman Linneweh wrote: > * "Owen.G" [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: > >>I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: >>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi >> >>and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. >> >>Questions: >>1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? >>2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be >>announced on the "freebsd-announce" mailing list? > > > AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. > > On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your > VIA too. >