From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 12 10:32:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C93F945; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:32:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com (mail-wg0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ADB967; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id 8so5785642wgl.18 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:32:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=XiJGbr+H5GsJxtPCFSaf2UjBtU/GyVBrbvpKs3+h0pI=; b=QQGM0CcdNIXTJkCiFBVTGoxy6krh58eGTFpYmuh4iCG3rZ/9wc/KwhrrGOiCpLTbKk 0IUT1X82pdCa9CW4LVJVjh1e8CwxxBCYBPqrkjq+QQBnsO23ubvMFXAqgYgaAIz/Si27 4mWntmzbA/0vLIFZGmb1f7IbDLQ1Ay0oRyXf1bTFEBWHp1sMRajPhVl1nTZY39Z22Vm6 rOk/iJ8NnHUjDIs/6MmGVSuUIT40uQMjPzq1s345DVe4DZsz9rw0lELBl2YvmDuF9IOi axG3vUbSCpNQxxRxB5e1G+N2SEFP1/q3uPeDC9x/xzsOM3kWSh9jgzAqnQBcw/aibYYk f+yw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.81.193 with SMTP id c1mr18520581wiy.19.1363084329961; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.60.147 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:32:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <513E5197.70509@freebsd.org> References: <513E5197.70509@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [CFT] xorg 7.7 From: David Demelier To: Niclas Zeising Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:32:19 -0000 2013/3/11 Niclas Zeising > The FreeBSD xorg team (x11@) presents this update of the FreeBSD xorg > port to version 7.7. > This CFT is intended to weed out as many bugs and regressions as > possible before merging xorg 7.7 into ports, please test it as much as > possible, to make it as good as can be. > We need testers of both new and old xorg, on as many architectures and > hardware combinations as possible. > Please report both successes and failures, and remember to include which > architecture, graphics card, version of FreeBSD and compiler you are > using, as well as relevant logs if any. > > This CFT and any updates can either be obtained using SVN from > https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-7.7 . > Once this ports overlay is obtained, it is necessary to run the > xorgmerge script, obtainable here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge . > Please don't forget to update directories before running this script. > > A patch against the ports tree is also available, and can be obtained > from http://people.freebsd.org/~zeising/xorg-7.7.diff . > Apply this using either > svn patch /path/to/xorg-7.7.diff > if your ports tree is managed by svn or > patch -p0 -E < /path/to/xorg-7.7.diff > if your ports tree is managed by portsnap > Remember -E, so that empty files are removed. > This patch will be kept as up to date as possible, but might lag a > little behind the SVN repository. > > Once the patch is in your ports tree, to build the old xorg, just cd to > /usr/ports/x11/xorg and run make install. > To get the new xorg, first set WITH_NEW_XORG in /etc/make.conf then > proceed as above. > > Hopefully we will also be able to make packages and test images > available for use, however, this is not done yet. A link for these > packages and images will be posted in a follow-up mail. > > In this CFT: > * xorg-server 1.12.4 (WITH_NEW_XORG) > * Mesa 8.0.5 (WITH_NEW_XORG) > * Updated dri > * libX11 1.5 > * libxcb 1.8 > * updates for drivers > * Updates for all other utilities and libraries > > Known issues: > The issues with imake and makedepend requiring a gnu compatible cpp is > not yet resolved. > Hardware acceleration for certain ATI radeon cards might no longer work, > if compiled with WITH_NEW_XORG. This is expected to be resolved once > the work of porting TTM/KMS for radeon is completed. > > Thank you very much, thus people that have still old radeon cards such as 4xxx that does not need KMS can just go on with xorg without WITH_NEW_XORG set right? For more information see https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg or come visit us > on IRC, #freebsd-xorg @ EFNet > Best Regards > Regards, -- Demelier David