From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Mar 23 14:35:20 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 1FF7AD1A495 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:35:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (108-84-10-9.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net [108.84.10.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "darth.immure.com", Issuer "darth.immure.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C561D1A73 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id v2NEZHMk087896 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:35:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v2NEZHMQ087895; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:35:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:35:17 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Thomas Mueller Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170323143517.GA87700@rancor.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170323122543.GN3359@rancor.immure.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) 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: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:35:20 -0000 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 |