Determining Video Hardware For "WITH_NEW_XORG"

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Aug 4 08:35:47 UTC 2014


On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:22:26 +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> As I use KDE4 - version 4.10.5 currently - will I have to stick with the 
> pkg(8) url "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/release/0" for upgrading 
> and installing packages?
> 
> Or, can I still build the software on the machine using poudriere and 
> specify 'WITHOUT_NEW_XORG' in order to benefit from the latest releases 
> of KDE et al?

An addition:

http://ximalas.info/2014/03/13/without_new_xorgyes-true/

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG

Check Intel GPU and driver in relation to KMS.


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