HEADSUP: 10.0 switch to WITH_NEW_XORG

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 2 06:19:01 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 06:13:53PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The WITH_NEW_XORG setting has been activated by default on FreeBSD 10.0
> > and above, which allows us to have packages for xorg 1.12 and kde4.
> >
> > Please be aware that on systems that only support syscons
> > switching virtual terminals or exiting X
> > results in a black screen or the last image of their desktop
> > (like a screenshot) being presented.  Commands can still be typed blindly.
> >
> > Most, if not all, systems should be using vt(4) and this can be enabled
> > by setting kern.vty=vt in /boot/loader.conf and reboot to activate.
> >
> > On behalf of core,
> > Bapt
> >
> 
> 
> If I followed these instructions:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html
> what are the recommended actions I should take after this change?

Just disable the FreeBSD_new_xorg repository when the packages will be available
(they will be built in 6 days)

regards,
Bapt
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