From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Tue Mar 28 06:56:26 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16325D22F00 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 06:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp205.alice.it (smtp205.alice.it [82.57.200.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F49A1ED; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 06:56:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (82.52.25.226) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.060.28) (authenticated as acanedi@alice.it) id 588F425B0E3F3A49; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:56:13 +0200 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v2S6uAYT058217; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:56:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.ventu: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: CFT: update Xorg to 1.19.3 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, rezny@freebsd.org References: <1774569.2utjLAkrOb@workstation.reztek> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <6b783e76-f30f-18cb-d458-1ed3b9d665be@netfence.it> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:56:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1774569.2utjLAkrOb@workstation.reztek> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 06:56:26 -0000 On 03/16/17 18:50, Matthew Rezny wrote: > The time has come for the next update of Xorg. All the drivers were readied > for the new ABI during the previous update so no new drivers are needed, just > be sure to rebuild all the drivers after upgrading xorg-server. > > Changes in 1.19 include threaded input support and improvements to the > modesetting driver and GLAMOR. There are also a few local changes of note. > > * The devd config backend has been updated to handle /dev/hidX and > /dev/input/eventX devices as provided by webcamd. > * An experimental option is now provided for a third config backend, udev, > which is the replacement for HAL upstream, but using libudev-devd. > * The SUID option has been changed to install a setuid wrapper, to which > /usr/local/bin/X points, instead of making /usr/local/bin/Xorg setuid. This > allows Xorg to be launched as a non-root user, useful if it will not be > interfacing hardware (e.g. virtual framebuffer in jail, with xpra, etc). There > is no difference for non-root users running startx as it executes X, which > points to the setuid wrapper. > > Please test and reply to this list with your feedback. Just updated a Radeon i386 box and bumped into this: > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/59717/ After I applied the suggested config change, everything seems to work fine; so far (10 minutes), so good. Perhaps this should be mentioned in an eventual UPDATE entry? I'll come back if I encounter any later glitch. bye & Thanks av.