HEADSUP: X.Org conversion
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Fri Jul 23 14:46:42 PDT 2004
Eric Anholt wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:31, Eric Anderson wrote:
>
>
>>Eric Anholt wrote:
>>
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>>>OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree.
>>>No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has
>>>been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of
>>>FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
>>>by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Sorry if I'm in the stone age here, but I why is this better than
>>XFree86? Just curious.
>>
>>
>
>It's newer than our old XFree86 4.3 and supports far more hardware.
>It's also where current X developers are working, so it's where new
>features will be first. It also doesn't have the new XFree86 license.
>You could read xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG and xc/ChangeLog
>to see what actually changed. (Hint: a lot.)
>
Cool! So I can expect all the same stuff that works in the -snap
version (4.3.99 I think?) of XFree86 to work on X.Org stuff? In
particular, I need the laptop/lcd screen turning off feature that works
in -snap but not the built in XFree86 with acpi.
I'll give it a try and report problems..
Thanks Eric for the hard work!
Eric
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