Updating X.org FreeBSD ports to 7.3

[sarek]

Rene Ladan-3 wrote:
> 
> 2007/9/10, sarek <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Thanks for the help...
>>
>> The build went without a hitch (no previous version of X installed).
>>
>> It still doesn't like my card but I guess I will have to wait for Nvidia
>> to
>> release the new driver in the next few days... the nv driver doesn't
>> reconize the card and the prioritory one has a ABI mismatch that
>> -ignoreABI
>> doesn't resolve
>>
> Yes, this sounds like Nvidia needs to recompile their driver under
> Xserver 1.4 which ships with X.org 7.3
> 

The need to do a little more then that since I looked through the sources
and saw plenty of places it assumes pre-7.3 stuff


>> I am stuck with vesa I guess, but I will say the vesa driver on 7.3 is a
>> better then the one on 7.2 but it still blanks the screen under heavy I/O 
>> (disk)
> If you look at X.org gitweb, you can see that the vesa driver hasn't
> changed.  I'm also stuck with the vesa driver, but I've never seen
> screen blankings.
> 

I have had a few other odd ball things (like fetch hangs on certain
http://.... url's in the ports tree) so I am upgrading to 7.0-CURRENT from
6.2-RELEASE-p7.   This is &*^&*&* madding because my old machine had the bad
idea to die right as I built (literally 5 mins before) this new one (one
reason for buying it was I knew the old machine was on the way out) and the
semester starts tomorrow and a CS student (and a ISV owner) with no
developement platform is a *BAD THING* (exspecially when I owe one from last
semester ;-) which I need open office for).   Well enough ranting I like the
new machine:

E6850 3.0 GHz
P35 chipset (MSI Neon-F MB)
4 GB ram
500 GB SATA drive
Nvidia 8400 GS PCI-E (yes one of the low end components)
Some nice accessaries like my first non-lowest cost case/power supply
Price was right $950 (including tax and service plans on MB and CPU)

--Aryeh
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