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Subject: Re: laptop 9.1 upgrade
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:27:48 +0200
> Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:
>
> > I have a laptop, I'd like to upgrade to recent
> > version and use with graphics. When installed,
> > it had to use kms and I recompiled x parts to
> > have it work.
> > I'd like to get advice if I have to go up to 9.3
> > or 10.0 better, regarding hardware, mentioned
>
> does 9.3 support your hardware? It seems to me.
>
> I would then stick with 9.x as a long it is supported.
>
> You should not need to reinstall the ports if you stick with 0.x
>
> > in dmesg I post latter. I would avoid zfs. What
> > about kms recompiling for 9.3?
>
> I would do a simple portupgrade after installing the 9.3.
>
> > I assume I'd first install pkg for packages and
> > then do "pkg upgrade -f" to update all of them?
> > If more info needed, I will post it aside dmesg.
> > Best regards.
> >
> > Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
> > 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> > FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #1: Sat Dec 29 16:05:59 CET 2012
> >     root@mycenae:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERN amd64
> > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz (2294.83-MHz K8-class
>
> This looks like a second generation CPU. This is fully supported. Just
> install 9.3 and then get a new ports tree and do a portupgrade or use
> any other tool you like to do this job.
>
> The defaults should lead you to a fully supported graphics card.
>
> What notebook model are you using?
>
> Erich


I guess that 9.3 has more modern stuff than 10.0 actually.

Are you using pkgng? Packages from freebsd or locally compiled? As far as I
know there is an official pkgng repo with new xorg bits.

Best regards
Andreas