Removal of legacy X.Org (aka non-WITH_NEW_XORG)

[René Ladan]

2014-10-03 11:01 GMT+02:00 Claude Buisson <clbuisson at orange.fr>:

> On 10/03/2014 10:30, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you may know, the ports tree currently provides two versions of the
>> X.Org server and related pieces of software:
>>     1. xserver 1.7, Mesa 7.6 and libdrm 2.4.17
>>     2. xserver 1.12, Mesa 9.1 and libdrm 2.4.52
>>
>> We are about to remove the older set. The primary reason is the
>> maintenance cost. The Graphics team is small and it's a nightmare to
>> test changes. The consequence is infrequent updates to those packages
>> and, of course, way more work each time we decide to jump to a later
>> version. All this time spent on keeping the legacy stack in a working
>> state isn't invested on improving the current one and today's hardware
>> support.
>>
>> The recent update to Cairo is a good example of this unsustainable
>> situation: we tested what we could with the time we had and we sent a
>> "Call for testers" on freebsd-x11@ and freebsd-current@ mailing-lists as
>> well as asking for help on several Quarterly Status Reports. The benefit
>> (if not the requirement) of the update and the lack of failure reports
>> were instrumental in the final decision. Unfortunately, many users of
>> the old X.Org server on Intel GPUs are now having crashes with any Gtk+
>> applications or the X.Org server itself. This time, we won't revert
>> anything or spend more time on trying to fix the old stack.
>>
>> [...]

NVIDIA does not exist in your world ?
>
> Nvidia (GeForce GT240M, old card indeed) works fine here with NEW_XORG on
FreeBSD 10.0 using the nvidia-driver port (version 340.24)

René