From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Oct 3 11:45:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE69437B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (spoon.beta.com [199.165.180.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627B643E42; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost.beta.com [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g93Ijp7Z026086; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:45:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Message-Id: <200210031845.g93Ijp7Z026086@spoon.beta.com> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Gregory Bond , qa@FreeBSD.ORG, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com Subject: Re: some RC2 issues In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 07:56:48 PDT." <200210031456.g93EumHf083929@intruder.bmah.org> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:45:51 -0400 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I, too, have had issues getting XDM working on 4.6.2 and 4.7RCs... I've given up using the prepackaged set, and I build it on my own now from source. Of course, with a couple of 2GHz+ systems, its not particularly painful. However, it would be nice to fix. -Brian > --==_Exmh_-2103240077P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > If memory serves me right, Gregory Bond wrote: > > > Some things I notice: > > - The X stuff seems to have been compiled on 5.0 box, as the startup from th > > e > > X server says: > > Release Date: 3 September 2002 > > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is > > newer than the above date, look for a newer version before > > reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) > > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 [ELF] > > Hmmm...the i386 ports cluster machines *do* run 5-CURRENT kernels > (because they need to make packages for both 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT). > But when they're building 4-STABLE packages, they run a 4-STABLE > userland. I thought they were tweaked to lie about what OS version > they were really running. > > It looks odd, but I don't *think* it should bother anything. > > This may be dependent on what mechanism a package uses to figure out > the OS version. I checked a package for one of my own ports (net/ > pchar) and it thought it had built on 4.7, which is what it should > think. > > Bruce. > > > > --==_Exmh_-2103240077P > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 > > iD8DBQE9nFqv2MoxcVugUsMRAnirAJwJnij4J2au4Nliic4htGA7K1guTgCfUPuW > gZJ2VmWZPypfMvpFtYEn7zY= > =a72H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --==_Exmh_-2103240077P-- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message