Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:11:21 -0500 From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, alex-goncharov@comcast.net Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <E1LTc6b-000Oho-Ux@daland.home> In-Reply-To: <200902011233.57132.matt@chronos.org.uk> (message from Matt Dawson on Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:33:56 %2B0000) References: <200901311153.58361.vehemens@verizon.net> <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home> <200902011233.57132.matt@chronos.org.uk>
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,--- You/Matt (Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:33:56 +0000) ----* | Yes, it can. Read the man page for csup. You can set something like | tag=. date=2008.12.20.12.00.00 in your supfile and get back to (within reason) | any historic point in the tree. That is wonderfully nice -- thank you. | You can also tell portupgrade, if you use it, to hold off on certain | upgrades (try pkg_info -r xorg-7.3_2 for a full list of packages to | hold in portupgrade.conf, HOLD_PKGS define) if you want to stay | current, although I can see a few ports failing with odd deps after | they've been touched by the Xorg bump, so you'd probably be better | off using the supfile's date method to preserve compatibility | between ports. OK, now the idea of how to keep a part of my port system old and the other part new is beginning to shape in my head... A bit of pain but should be doable. | That is not to say the new Xorg doesn't work. The only problems I've | seen on Radeons needed a couple of options lines in xorg.conf due to | the hald/dbus/xorg race and an fdi to make the keyboard layout match | what I actually have rather than "us". Easily fixed for now and 7.4 | brings some fixes to my systems that I have been awaiting for quite | some time, most notably the horrendous XPress 200M chipset now works | with DRI. Knowing about specific things now fixed for specific users is very encouraging. Thanks a lot! -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
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