Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:31:49 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.0 PKGNG repository for xorg (was: [CFT] Update of xorg libraries and MESA) Message-ID: <CAGBxaXn5ovUypaeDxEZAt_LdF866MeK7vA9sXsVf8XQ-xR5Hfw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMouGSZO-=YZ0j9gVj5fH=_%2BM1vxK_XbK=iY_tVS6=0044qNbg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMouGSa21tWAUmxAML4rDLLD4rG=CsPcchwJh0KR%2BFvxS%2BiONA@mail.gmail.com> <CAMouGSZO-=YZ0j9gVj5fH=_%2BM1vxK_XbK=iY_tVS6=0044qNbg@mail.gmail.com>
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Just so you know there is a front end for bhyve (emuators/petitecloud) that is waiting for a committer to commit it if you want to try it and give some feedback on how to make it better see the announcement in freebsd-virtualization... or download it from ftp://ftp.petitecloud.org/petitecloud/aryeh/0.1/port-0.1.tar.gz On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > first post here! > > I've just come back to FreeBSD as a desktop after the new additions of > PKGNG/poudriere, new KMS/X.org, bhyve etc... I've always used Linux but I > love FreeBSD; and use it quite often at work. > > Thanks very much for the updated xorg stack, on my systems with Nvidia > video cards X starts in a snap without any xorg.conf configuration file. > > It also works perfectly with proprietary Nvidia drivers. > > To help this into reaching the official ports tree and to avoid people in > waiting for long compile sessions I've built a PKGNG repository that > contains the following ports for FreeBSD 10/amd64: > > x11/xorg > x11/xorg-minimal > x11/nvidia-driver > x11/nvidia-settings > x11/nvidia-xconfig > multimedia/libvdpau > multimedia/vdpauinfo > > All the packages have been built from today's portsnap checkout with the > xorg-mesaupdate.diff patch (2013-Sep-12). > > Nvidia packages have been updated to 325.15; and nvidia-settings now has a > dependency on libvdpau. Linux support is disabled as I'm not interested in > it. > > You can add the repository here: > > http://negativo17.org/freebsd/xorg/ > > If you have any issue/feedback please let me know; I will try to address > them as soon as I can. > > I will write an entry in my blog about this in the next days after some > initial feedback. > > One question: Is there any interest in such a bleeding edge repository also > for FreeBSD 9.x or for the i386 platform? > > Thanks & regards, > --Simone > > -- > You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of > the shore (R. W. Emerson). > > http://xkcd.com/229/ > http://negativo17.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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