Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:27:11 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: Making XFree86-4 the default Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009100023370.24271-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20000910101026.B15703@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 September 2000 at 6:43:42 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What do you guys think about making XFree86-4-* the default now? With
> > the split-up XFree86-4 ports and the xtt-* servers (which are
> > basically 3.3.6 servers plus TrueType patches), I think everyone can
> > have a reasonable system.
> >
> > Those who don't want XFree86-4 can still set XFREE86_VERSION=3 in
> > their /etc/make.conf, but I will be generating packages with XF8V set
> > to 4 and also the package build logs will be showing up for 4 only.
> >
> > There are still many ports that have problems with XFree86-4 (most
> > notable the HTML manpage stuff) but we have 2 months to fix those
> > before the next release.
>
> I'd definitely like to see this. I'm in the process of writing the
> fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and it's a sensible time to
> describe 4 instead of 3.
>
> I can't address the bugginess issues, except to say that they don't
> seem to be biting me.
Ditto here too ... I'm using 4 on all my machines, and other then problems
before moving to 4.0.1, I've had nothing attack me yet ...
Just curious though ... someone brought up a problem where 4.x doesn't
support all the cards that 3.x does/did. Any way of using something like
Superprobe to determine which one to install? Basically, make a special
port for a standalone SuperProbe, and maintain in it a list of what 4.x
supports and if the persons video card isn't supported, default to
3.x. From looking at SuperProbe, it has no X dependencies:
hub# ldd SuperProbe
SuperProbe:
libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x48076000)
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