Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:34:36 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT for cairo 1.12 Message-ID: <20131210183436.0eacd41d@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <52A65755.3080405@rainbow-runner.nl> References: <52A65755.3080405@rainbow-runner.nl>
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:50:45 +0100 Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> wrote: > When replying please only reply to freebsd-x11@, freebsd-ports@ is only > used to get this a bigger audience. > > Greetings! > > This is a weird call for testers. > > So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for > people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. We know > that the graphics with the 2.7.1 intel driver are horribly broken (lots > of artifacts) so people don't need to test that, but what is the state > of the other xorg video drivers with cairo 1.12? If problems arise after > the update, a screenshot and details about installed ports and your > hardware should be enough. > > While this CFT is focused on the non-WITH_NEW_XORG that should not stop > people that are using WITH_NEW_XORG from trying it out. The Intel/Radeon > KMS drivers shouldn't have any problem with cairo 1.12. > > To apply the patch do the following: > Download the patch from [1]. > cd /usr/ports > patch -p0 < /path/to/cairo-1.12.16.diff > rebuild cairo > > We are also interested if people are still using 8.x for there desktop. > Is there a specific reason for not updating to 9.x or 10.x? > I tested this on a system running HEAD with a rather old install of X11 - definitely non-WITH_NEW_XORG. I use a Nvidia card with the driver from Nvidia. I tested using vlc, xine, mplayer and some HTML rendering plugin for claws-mail which supposedly all require cairo. Didn't see any problems. -- Gary Jennejohn
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