From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 22:07:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5325C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 22:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3438D43D48 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 22:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-24-21-18-195.client.comcast.net[24.21.18.195]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20040518050719015009qs03e>; Tue, 18 May 2004 05:07:19 +0000 From: Eric Anholt To: jason In-Reply-To: <40A677CF.8010306@ec.rr.com> References: <40A677CF.8010306@ec.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1084856837.764.3.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:07:18 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x.org server X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 05:07:21 -0000 On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 13:04, jason wrote: > I am looking to update my x server and I found x.org in the ports. It > was hiden so I would like to know if it is ready for desktop use or is > it still under development/debugging. I was going to update to > xfree86-4-snap until I found the x.org version. Also do I need to do > anything special when I upgrade from version 4.3, like change config > files or something? I expect I have to rebuild all ports that depend on x. > Thanks, > Jason The xorg server in ports is part of progress towards switching our X over to X.Org/freedesktop.org libraries and providing the X.Org server. It doesn't cooperate with XFree86-4-libraries, and the x.org/fd.o libraries aren't a complete replacement for XFree86-4-libraries yet. If you don't want to experience pain, you should probably just use XFree86-4-snap. That said, I'm using it on my desktop. To try it, just switch the XFree86-4-libraries dependency in bsd.port.mk to point to xlibs instead, pkg_delete -f XFree86-4-libraries (leave clients and the rest of them), and go for it. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org