From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 3 18:24: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF82C37B401; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:23:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DCA43FB1; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com) Received: from localhost (eischen@localhost) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.3/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h242Nv3v024361; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:23:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:23:57 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Eric Anholt Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Corey Holcomb-Hockin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is XFree86 4.3.0 going to be in 4.8? -nt- In-Reply-To: <1046743791.638.13.camel@leguin> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Mar 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:16, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > At this point, I'd guess probably not, given that there was (is?) some > > amount of work for the MAINTAINER to do to get it to build correctly, > > and there's not much chance for testing before the release, which is > > only two weeks away. > > (cross-posted to ports, who might be interested in this) > > I've got imake-4 and XFree86-4-libraries, clients, documents, manuals, > and Server building and running on my machine and looking mostly correct > in their plists (-Server still needs work for non-x86). Cool! > The fonts ports should be quick to update. I am still not sure what do > do with XFree86-4-(Font,Nest,VirtualFramebuffer,Print)Server. > > Current version of the diff is at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/files/x430diff-1 > > Haven't given up hope for getting it in 4.8, but it's probably not > likely. With all the problems supposedly fixed in 4.3 (especially the ATI drivers (*)), it might be worth it to delay 4.8 a few days just to include this port. (*) I can confirm that 4.3 works with my ATI Radeon 7500 whereas it doesn't with 4.2.1. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message