HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

[James Snyder]

Another successful upgrade to report, although not without some trials 
and tribulations.  The end result is that I have things going with the 
NVIDIA drivers, compositing works (I've even fired up Compiz and though 
that's not 100% stable, it's quite usable so long as a few things are 
avoided. Window decorations died once while switching back and forth to 
another virtual terminal and GL screensavers hang up (first frame 
rendered, subsequent ones do not).

Regarding the trials and tribulations.  I did not, at first, get the 
message that one shouldn't overlay the testing tree on top of the older 
tree, and did the first libXft upgrade at that point.  That failed and 
subsequently I needed to do a series of pkgdb -F & portupgrade -a 
commands along with a few make deinstalls to make everything happy.  I 
could post the log of going through all that, however, it's incredibly 
long, and likely a bit on the confusing side due to not giving up on any 
dead-ends :-)

Merge executed, had to then manually do the simlink.  After that, I had 
trouble with the default font fixed and cursor not being found.  I 
needed to install the appropriate misc-misc & misc-cursor fonts to get 
that going appropriately.  I also had to manually install mouse and 
keyboard input drivers after the new xorg drivers directory was 
initially created during the upgrade process as a file rather than a 
directory.

Best.

-jsnyder