Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:28:19 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard Makefile ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard/files patch-at_scancode.c patch-bsd_kbd.c Message-ID: <20071025192819.GF70883@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20071025112222.GA3415@FreeBSD.org> References: <200710242013.l9OKDPPW045914@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071025105820.GA99609@FreeBSD.org> <20071025110109.GA3374@k7.mavetju> <20071025112222.GA3415@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:22:22AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>P.S. I'm starting to get a bit frustrated about the whole X.org 7.x
>thing. With every release of it, something gets broken, and nothing
>gets fixed.
I'll second that. IMO, 7.3 is a regression on 7.2 in both reliability
and functionality. The underlying problem seems to be that X.org are
no longer doing any integration testing: They produce several hundred
software packages but don't bother confirming that they actually work.
My breakage list is:
- 7.x introduced a whole pile of hard-wired modelines which can't be
disabled without patching the source code.
- xdm default directory was broken (later fixed)
- Files installed into /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm broken (maybe fixed by above)
- /usr/local/{share/examples,lib/X11}/xdm/Xresources was unparsable due
to a block of missing lines
- VTY/X11 switching on my ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M is dodgier (the display is
corrupted more frequently)
- system clock gets screwed up (it can lose several seconds during a VTY/X11
switch)
- DPMS display off/on can corrupt display
- The Xserver seems to call abort() when it should call exit()
So far, I haven't found anything that is actually an improvement over 7.2.
--=20
As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to
advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal
amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product.
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