From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Oct 26 3:52:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br [200.248.148.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88C037B479; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (casantos@localhost) by gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00539; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:55:31 GMT (envelope-from casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br) X-Authentication-Warning: gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br: casantos owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:55:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Carlos A M dos Santos To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: Making XFree86-4 the default In-Reply-To: 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 26 Oct 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Are there any other outstanding issues re throwing the big switch and > making XFree86-4 the default now? (As it says in the subject > line...you guys thought I replied to an old mail by mistake? :) There was a recent modification in Xt that prevents some Xaw and Motif programs from running correctly. This may be a problem. > In case someone missed the previous discussion, "the XFree86-4 server > doesn't support my card" is not a valid reason. We already have a > whole bunch of xtt-* servers, which are based on 3.3.6 and should work > just fine on such machines. Provided that the servers can run without problems, I agree with you. I'm currently using the XFree86-4 "userland" :-) with a XFree86-3 server at home because my S3 Trio64V+ card is not supported yet. One advantage is that I can use the new Lucidux fonts, that look great. > The question is whether we want to have people who have cards that are > supported by both 3.3.6 and 4.0 use the new server, and also have > people use the 4.0 libraries etc. instead of 3.3.6 counterparts. Server configuration may be a problem, since the it changed very much from XFree86-3 to XFree86-4. One possible solution would be to install both versions of XF86Setup and xf{86,98}config and let the user choose between them. > I've been compiling the mid-week (non-ftp) packages with 4.0 for a > while, and other than the HTML manpage stuff (which should not be hard > to fix), most ports seem to compile just fine. > > Satoshi The HTML manpage stuff works more-or-less well for me, but the cut-down version of rman used in XFree86 has problems with some pages (eg. it does not recognizes mdoc). I had big problems with the Motif manual pages, possibly because they were generated from SGML source. I submited a patch to OpenMotif (available in MotifZone) that fixes the manpage installation. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center Av. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes 2791 Pelotas, RS, Brasil, CEP 96060-290 WWW: http://www.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br RENPAC (X.25): 153231641 Phone: +55 53 277-6767 FAX: +55 53 277-6722 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message