From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 10 17:34:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3473FA60 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:34:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-x22b.google.com (mail-ea0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c01::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEF971FB1 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f171.google.com with SMTP id h10so2417276eak.30 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:34:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/H0mrOzMB+oTMJDQX1g01IAZ/n1AWpA3WZdarh6XJ3c=; b=pEu+3J7nvSB6QM1vpo92wOVtdEHYLYTIqBpVIZ2MN6pbLccgSdsue5sNppgSDeJfQ5 Mh2Hf/D21j8oXtBmjv5/vgLNBDFTv6AWuUyOuvUpWg5QdDJpOVgnbRLceVY/2MsxO2uI GAmf36Cw4hbomhMaEW6u/fYhO9i00X49zpBR8R8TFV/cGImJaXmuvxyB0P5YX8TUtDvh T5vNub9rX5O0Uhrt+yJfe6JUqVx5pw7Khk0qTft+TWtMHNOmhImrR+a4sHIz8z6qJivm VJcUweyit4tg9JX+jv1EUGIKieQzOqrTEYAyjHDih182zNY/WV31K8US0wo0co7cwA6j zfgg== X-Received: by 10.14.0.201 with SMTP id 49mr19555061eeb.38.1386696880402; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:34:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.home (p578E0368.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [87.142.3.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e3sm43675354eeg.11.2013.12.10.09.34.38 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:34:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:34:36 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@gmail.com List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:34:43 -0000 On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:50:45 +0100 Koop Mast 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