HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

[Scott Long]

Felipe openglx wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> 
>>All,
>>
>>Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough
>>that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE.  Everyone
>>that we have talked to has applauded the stability and functionality of
>>the system, so we are really pleased and really eager to wrap it up and
>>get it out to everyone.  Over the next 24 hours we will be synchronizing
>>the RELENG_6_0 tree to get in all of the appropriate bug fixes, then we
>>will do some test builds as a final verification.  Everyone is still
>>welcome to update their sources on the RELENG_6_0 branch and provide
>>feedback for the next 48 hours or so.  The release will likely be
>>announced by the end of the weekend or early next week, at the latest.
> 
> 
> I had a few issues with SiS 630 video driver, already related in
> thread http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=815881+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-current/20051016.freebsd-current
> 
> Are those corrected already? I did compile the latest kernel (after a
> cvsup on src-sys*) and X.org still reboots my machine if I enable the
> SiS driver.
> 
> --
> openglx at StarByte.net

You'll need to work with the X11 developers.  X is only something that
FreeBSD includes as a 3rd party package, it's not something that we
work on as part of the OS.

Scott