From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 29 19:15:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A158E37B417 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16941 invoked by uid 100); 30 Apr 2002 02:15:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15565.65104.828908.383127@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:15:44 -0500 To: Andrew Reilly Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Edwin Groothuis , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE In-Reply-To: <1020132402.59591.39.camel@gurney.reilly.home> References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020427221418.J56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020427135344.D89190@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020428104843.K56612@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org> <20020428111119.B77837@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280117.g3S1H2DV055561@intruder.bmah.org> <1020132402.59591.39.camel@gurney.reilly.home> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.52 (Python 2.2.1 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <1020132402.59591.39.camel@gurney.reilly.home>, Andrew Reilly typed: > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 11:17, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > If you actually do run into problems with the way the XFree86 4.2.0 got > > integrated, give a holler. > First biggie: the build doesn't seem to have the interactive business > anymore. That would be well and good, if it worked properly. I don't > know what happened, but portupgrade removed up my old XFree864.1 > installation, including all of my config files in /etc/X11, and then the > new version didn't install a new set. Aargh. I had to dig an old copy > of /etc/X11 off a backup CD I'd made earlier. I still don't know what > magic was really required to make the port install the config files. Everything but /etc/XF86Config moved to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Everything "just worked" for me after the upgrade, without having to install anything in /etc/X11. > Second biggie: I have a Matrox MGA G200 video card that was well > supported in earlier releases. The new release doesn't work at all if > compiled without the WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER=yes flag in make.conf. The > server whinges that it can't find MGA_HAL_something.so.foo. So, > re-compiling with the flag set builds a server that runs, but that (my > guess) hangs the PCI bus. The screen goes black, a few seconds pass in > which no input of any sort works, and then the system does a hard > reboot. Sorry, but I can't help with that one. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message