Date: 29 Apr 2002 13:00:36 -0700 From: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <1020110436.9956.15.camel@borges.codysbooks.com> In-Reply-To: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Hello, About a month ago I attempted to upgrade my XFree86 installation to 4.2.0. The build and install went just fine. However, when I went to start X, my screen blinked on and off and was entirely unusable. This is with an ATI Mach 64 3D Rage Pro. Works fine with XFree86 4.1.0_13,1. I seem to recall that a couple of other people noticed this as well and I was wondering if this problem has been resolved? A search on Google and the list archives yield no information... -Scott On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 05:40, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dear all, > > As decided by the release engineering and port manager teams, > I have switched the default XFree86 version from 3.3.6 to 4.2.0. > Packages for FreeBSD 4.x are now being built with XFree86-4.2.0 > as a dependency, and ports will also be built with the newer > version once you update to a newer -STABLE kernel. > > If you want to keep using XFree86-3.x with your port builds, > add the following to your /etc/make.conf: > > XFREE86_VERSION=3 > > Note that this will not affect the XFree86 version dependency > of packages downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org or its mirrors, > because those are determined at compile-time and cannot be > changed at install-time. > > XFree86-3.3.6 will still be available as an installation option > via the packages menu of sysinstall, but the default XFree86 > version will be 4.2.0 in 4.6-RELEASE. > > Since this is a nontrivial change and the 4.6 release cycle is > just around the corner (code freeze: May 1), please test this > as much as possible and report any problems or unexpected > behaviour to ports@FreeBSD.org and portmgr@FreeBSD.org. > > Kris > > P.S. The decision to upgrade from XFree86-3.3.6 to 4.2.0 in > a -STABLE branch was made after careful consideration of the > benefits and drawbacks of such a change. Therefore, please > try to resist the temptation to point out factors we have > already considered which weigh against this decision. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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