Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:13:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Mike Murphree <w4lna@knology.net> Cc: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 Message-ID: <20020306081320.B81407@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020305123218.AD7ED37B402@hub.freebsd.org>; from w4lna@knology.net on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:32:34AM -0600 References: <20020305104817.H68911-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20020305123218.AD7ED37B402@hub.freebsd.org>
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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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