Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:35:17 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170323143517.GA87700@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <20170323122543.GN3359@rancor.immure.com> References: <20170321182231.GG77624@rancor.immure.com> <25c5ecee-b617-a55b-c8f9-cf041b7ecf92@nomadlogic.org> <20170321201843.GH77624@rancor.immure.com> <10d5602e-8fe5-1d2c-1e07-5ca2f62ebfe0@nomadlogic.org> <20170321222823.GA79219@rancor.immure.com> <79.B5.25473.52E32D85@dnvrco-omsmta03> <20170322125003.GL3359@rancor.immure.com> <5F.72.29375.2FB73D85@dnvrco-omsmta02> <20170323122543.GN3359@rancor.immure.com>
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:25:43AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:38:21AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > > > > > and used freebsd-base-graphics for both buildword and buildkernel. I'm not too > > > clear on just what that means for any future updates, though. I have been > > > hoping for the past year or more that the patches/changes included in > > > freebsd-base-graphics would get integrated into the base. I really don't know > > > if that's happened or planned to be done. Been kinda frustrating. > > > > > Bob > > > > I look further and see that you need a slightly different ports tree: > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics.git > > > > but I think you need to put -b xserver-next at the end of the git command (and git at the beginning). > > > > Then such a FreeBSD installation would have to be separate from an installation that uses regular src tree and ports tree, lest the ABI and shared libraries be out of sync. > > > > > > Tom > > Uh Oh, I may be in trouble...I started up a 'synth upgrade-system' yesterday > before leaving the office (it takes a number of hours to complete on the > system and boggs it down pretty badly). It said thad it was was going to build > 999 ports. It should have finished sometime last night. Wonder what I'll > discover when I get into the office today? Hope it didn't mess things up... > > Note that after installing the freebsd-base-graphics kernel and world (and > rebooting) and before rebuilding any ports I didn't notice any problems. Of > course, I didn't try every program and it was only for about a day. > > Bob Well, of the 999 ports that were deemed to need rebuilding, 2 were skipped and 5 failed. For now I think I'm going to leave well enough alone as my system seems to be running ok (for at least what I need it for) and I really can't afford to be breaking it. Bob -- Bob Willcox | You're dead, Jim. bob@immure.com | -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown Austin, TX |
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