From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 5 11:14:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8949F37B42F for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g25JDKv81859; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:13:20 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:13:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mike Murphree Cc: Herve Quiroz , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 Message-ID: <20020306081320.B81407@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020305104817.H68911-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20020305123218.AD7ED37B402@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020305123218.AD7ED37B402@hub.freebsd.org>; from w4lna@knology.net on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:32:34AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:32:34AM -0600, Mike Murphree wrote: > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:03 am, Herve Quiroz wrote: > > I have not been member of this list until recently so I have probably > > missed some discussion on the topic. Anyway, what is going on with Xfree86 > > v4.2 ? I once had seen XFree86 4.2 on freshports.org but then it came back > > to 4.1 few days later... > > > > NetBSD has already 4.2 in -stable so why not FreeBSD ? > > > > The port was at 4.2.0 shortly before the release of FreeBSD 4.5 and > it was rolled back to 4.1.9 because of insufficient testing time before the > release. It has never been put back... > > I've been running 4.2.0 since that time with zero problems. I have noticed that there's a problem running "xv" with 4.2. If you try viewing multiple files of the same framesize, it sometimes doesn't refresh correctly. Works fine under 4.1.x -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vini, vidi, velcro... I came, I saw, I stuck around To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message