ports/131016: x11/xorg - xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

The following reply was made to PR ports/131016; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at math.ntnu.no>
To: stefan at freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/131016: x11/xorg - xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:05:41 +0200 (CEST)

 + Stefan Walter <stefan at freebsd.org>:
 
 > there hasn't been an update on your PR [1] for quite a while; in the
 > meantime, XOrg 7.5 has hit the ports tree. Can you still reproduce the
 > problem you described with an up-to-date ports tree?
 
 FWIW, now I am back from my sabbatical. Having been away for a whole
 year, I upgraded my system to 7.3-STABLE, blew away and rebuilt the
 ports with the latest ports tree, and the X server now works pretty
 good. My only complaint is that it often does not exit cleanly, and if
 I then kill -KILL it, I get psychedelic screen syndrome and must
 reboot. (OTOH, who wants to log out anyhow? It's a desktop machine in
 my office. I xlock it when I go home.) Not sure if I can follow up a
 lot more. I expect to get new hardware in the not too distant future,
 and then the problem just might evaporate.
 
 - Harald