Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 18:00:29 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPDATING entry for X.org changes Message-ID: <20100507160029.GE5564@megatron.madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <l2vb269bc571005070855vf41d8222k83cd225bbdde430@mail.gmail.com> References: <19428.941.605850.331539@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <j2ne890cae61005070520qf68713d7v4354384415d1fa9e@mail.gmail.com> <20100507134401.GA5564@megatron.madpilot.net> <l2vb269bc571005070855vf41d8222k83cd225bbdde430@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 08:55:26AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:20:55PM +0200, Ren Ladan wrote: > > > 2010/5/7 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>: > > > > > > > > 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. That bit me a while ago too. This isn't new to Xorg 7.5. 7.4 did that too AFAIK. Anyway this is Xorg's fault, FreeBSD ports just usually follow upstream default policies. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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