From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Sep 9 20:27:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR27-115.accesscable.net [24.138.27.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77DA37B423; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 20:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8A3RBE29657; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:27:12 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:27:11 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Greg Lehey Cc: Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: Making XFree86-4 the default In-Reply-To: <20000910101026.B15703@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message