Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:12:47 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, danallen46@airwired.net, bms@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <1233238367.1779.47.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <E1LSXPn-000ABB-4L@daland.home> References: <6B7ABE80-35AB-4C44-B5A4-200E10DCC3AC@airwired.net> <E1LSP0B-0003Ds-H8@daland.home> <49819BD5.5040709@FreeBSD.org> <E1LSWHr-0009TS-P7@daland.home> <1233236412.1779.40.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <E1LSXPn-000ABB-4L@daland.home>
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--=-n41b11fxlw51ca2HoJWs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:58 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:40:11 -0500) ----* > | I've had patches available for probably a couple of months now posted t= o > | freebsd-x11@. For the few people who tested it, I had no real issues > | reported. We were stalled for a long time, While X kept moving, so the > | amount of change was large. This update also brings in support for a > | lot of people who are running newer hardware. > |=20 > | I realize that there are some issues with the mouse driver... I'm > | trying to look at and resolve, but I don't really know input drivers, s= o > | I doing a lot of guess work. On top of that I do have a day job, so > | time is limited. =20 >=20 > Understood. >=20 > Would you have spent more time if the new X was introduced as two (?) > new ports: xorg-server-devel and libxcb-devel. Is X less complicated, > less dangerous, less "user-binding" than firefox or emacs? Problem is, it isn't just the Xserver... All of the pieces are intertwined and so in many cases to update Xserver you also need to update some/several libraries as well as all of your drivers. Xorg is about 60 or 70 ports now. FWIW, I have Xserver 1.6 and xrandr bits that are rc already... as well as a new intel driver that I don't want to update without xserver 1.6. robert. > -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net -- --=-n41b11fxlw51ca2HoJWs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmBuV8ACgkQM4TrQ4qfROMBxwCeN4aLknkMgLFIy7hSPI4UamD5 vB4An2jOmBW69mCIxCGBtX9arQHwyLX/ =binv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-n41b11fxlw51ca2HoJWs--
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