CFT for cairo 1.12

[Koop Mast]

On 10-12-2013 18:34, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:50:45 +0100
> Koop Mast <kwm at rainbow-runner.nl> wrote:
>
>> When replying please only reply to freebsd-x11@, freebsd-ports@ is only
>> used to get this a bigger audience.
>>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> This is a weird call for testers.
>>
>> So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for
>> people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. We know
>> that the graphics with the 2.7.1 intel driver are horribly broken (lots
>> of artifacts) so people don't need to test that, but what is the state
>> of the other xorg video drivers with cairo 1.12? If problems arise after
>> the update, a screenshot and details about installed ports and your
>> hardware should be enough.
>>
>> While this CFT is focused on the non-WITH_NEW_XORG that should not stop
>> people that are using WITH_NEW_XORG from trying it out. The Intel/Radeon
>> KMS drivers shouldn't have any problem with cairo 1.12.
>>
>> To apply the patch do the following:
>> Download the patch from [1].
>> cd /usr/ports
>> patch -p0 < /path/to/cairo-1.12.16.diff
>> rebuild cairo
>>
>> We are also interested if people are still using 8.x for there desktop.
>> Is there a specific reason for not updating to 9.x or 10.x?
>>
> I tested this on a system running HEAD with a rather old install of
> X11 - definitely non-WITH_NEW_XORG.
>
> I use a Nvidia card with the driver from Nvidia.
>
> I tested using vlc, xine, mplayer and some HTML rendering plugin
> for claws-mail which supposedly all require cairo.
>
> Didn't see any problems.
>

Just for completness, which nvidia card do you use and the driver version?

Thanks for testing!

-Koop


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