Experimental X.org ports updated to 7.2-RC3

[Florent Thoumie]

Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 09:24 -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Yesterday (or was it two days ago) I updated X.org experimental ports in
>>> the git repository to 7.2.r3. I had some time yesterday to run-test them
>>> and everything seems fine except two things:
>>>
>>> - type1 dynamic module has a missing symbol so it won't load properly.
>>> - beryl doesn't seem to work with recent xorg-server/mesa/glproto (this
>>> may only affect intel users though).
>>>
>>> The Beryl Project should release 0.1.3 soon and that will (possibly)
>>> address this issue.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I will be busy this weekend so don't expect a fix/update before
>>> monday.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>>   
>> FYI,
>>
>>     I pulled the latest -CURRENT code on Friday (the 8th), rebuilt world 
>> and kernel, installed it all, and then did a portupgrade yesterday.  I'm 
>> now running 7.2 RC3.  Unfortunately, this bug is still showing up:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/106370
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, when I threw my nVidia card in and installed the driver
> from ports, I experienced a whole new set of issues.  I symlinked the
> driver and glx module to the new locations and started X (with
> gnome-session in my .xinitrc file).   After a few seconds, the mouse
> cursor disappeared and X locked up.  I rebooted (from a serial terminal)
> and tried again with fvwm2.  That actually launched without problems.  I
> started glxgears and it ran.  I quit glxgears by hitting escape.  Except
> that it never returned me to a prompt at the terminal and the process
> hung (though the glxgears window did go away).  After a few seconds, the
> entire system crashed (which also happens if I try to start another GL
> application). I've tried with version 9629, as well, but encountered the
> same problem.
> 
> Version 8776 works fine, though.

I guess such reports should be made on nVidia FreeBSD forum [1].

[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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