UPDATING entry for X.org changes

[Freddie Cash]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:

> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 08:55:26AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't remember this being an issue for the 7.4 update, I remember the
checkerboard pattern.  But that may have been pre-7.4.  I just know that
this is the first time it's not been the checkerboard pattern.


> Anyway this is Xorg's fault, FreeBSD ports just usually follow upstream
> default policies.
>
> Never said it was FreeBSD's fault, or the Xorg port maintainer's fault.
Just that it was a major change in expected behaviour, and could use a note
in UPDATING.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com