Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Dec 30 21:54:32 PST 2004


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Adam Fabian wrote:

> I upgraded from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1 and also got obscure (but different)
> error messages.  The 5.3 packages on FreeBSD's FTP servers are 6.7.0.
> After looking a bit and not really finding a solution to my problem, I
> just downloaded the binary packages and downgraded back to 6.7.0.
> (This is probably a lot easier than compiling, since you'd probably
> have to use portdowngrade on a lot of ports, or do it manually, or
> some such.)

Apparently this is a known issue with 6.8.1 and the i810 driver; see
Problem Report ports/75425 for more info (and to contribute further
info).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/75425

-- Dave


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