Should 9.3 carry a warning about NEW_XORG

[Adrian Chadd]

Plenty of stuff doesn't have a non-accelerated fallback these days.
It's .. stupid.



-a


On 7 July 2014 13:49, Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> Quoth Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:
>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Ian Smith wrote:
>>
>> > Seeing that a perhaps not miniscule proportion of 9.x X users will need
>> > to do some manual configuration on upgrading to 9.3, a relevant WARNING
>> > in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html should be helpful.
>>
>> I can agree with the idea of a note, just have no clear idea what it
>> should say.  If people are shown how to stick with the old xorg, they
>> will be marooned and ports that require the newer version will not work.
>> People that upgrade may find their hardware no longer supported.  That's
>> sort of the price of progress with technology.
>
> (No, it's the price of depending on a CADT upstream. It's a shame
> FreeBSD doesn't have the manpower to maintain a fork, since that would
> really be the only reliable option at this point.)
>
> The note should say exactly what you just said: there are no good
> options. Many configurations will either break now or break soon, unless
> you're willing to fall back to VESA-only (is that likely to remain a
> viable option in all cases?). While this is a deplorable situation,
> there is nothing the FreeBSD project can do about it.
>
> Ben
>
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