From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 15:55:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78077106566C for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 15:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com (mail-gx0-f226.google.com [209.85.217.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338CC8FC14 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 15:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so718781gxk.13 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 08:55:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=FZABW7Gy2QJMP6rc7Oa7knxb9FVgitz32SMUJstyqHQ=; b=P/VK6wQ68e2a1wk8UNPQK4z+R29MHdqFHPTQfmcCptJjdSujCklEygwfZ6fRzt49sz C910hb8ixpfGZiG/YDDLTN+pQNemn35hfZs/uH80zQfG8dyP6Rm6kMn+ZPVJHIJUG/gJ BanABPZK+moNRUhAiHIq5qY/pPY0PTbpmcrvc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=tK3RUuQT2vXU0kQs9RrZqg+6J4xb4QjFTdq7YE+/z1/hbSxiWxEF4LkxRU5iZt82au snR/Kk38iSeykPBUCqZjnPQay3bz2mpvEj+7wS+aLdcAfa+Ekwz7skyVFLlG1CCZIhJg Nf4v+nzNXaDJc5/mMXdQREab+uRUX5fnhlfho= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.147.201 with SMTP id m9mr114898ibv.11.1273247726225; Fri, 07 May 2010 08:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.32.133 with HTTP; Fri, 7 May 2010 08:55:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100507134401.GA5564@megatron.madpilot.net> References: <19428.941.605850.331539@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20100507134401.GA5564@megatron.madpilot.net> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:55:26 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: UPDATING entry for X.org changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:32 -0000 On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Guido Falsi wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:20:55PM +0200, Ren Ladan wrote: > > 2010/5/7 Robert Huff : > > > > > > Is there one? I've been checking daily, and ... nothing. > > > (Various sited, including just now "cvsup.freebsd.org:.) > > > > > > > > No, there is indeed none for now. > > > > If you use portmaster you can just run 'portmaster -af' or follow the > > instructions near the end of its manual page (before Doug Barton > > goes correcting me ;) ) > > Why are you using "-af" forcing eqach and every port to be updated? I've > just done it with "portmaster -a" and weverything just works(I was > surprised too). > > Am I missing some important point which will look obvious tyo everyone > reading this email? :) > > What would have been nice is a note that the default background for the bare X server was changed from the nice grey/black checkerboard to solid black. The portmaster update of X completed successfully. Starting X by itself (X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf) gave a black screen, like it had crashed. Tried "X -configure" and "X -config ./xorg.conf.new". Same thing. Tried a couple of different xorg.conf files, tried without a config file. All gave black screens, similar to a crash of the X server or a driver bug. Deleted every port on the system and did a clean install of just xorg. Same thing, black screen. On a whim, I tried "xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm" ... ... ... and saw a black screen with a tiny xterm in the corner. Great ... so things were working from the get go. So, after 2 days of compiling, I have a barebone KDE4 desktop running on Xorg 7.5, with at least another 2 days of compiling before things are back to where they were originally. :( At least that should be noted in UPDATING. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com