Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:34:47 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, 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: <20020305193448.45BABBA08@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020306081320.B81407@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020305104817.H68911-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20020305123218.AD7ED37B402@hub.freebsd.org> <20020306081320.B81407@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 02:13 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 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
Yes, though if you go backward and forward again it usually fixes itself.
Weird.
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