[CFT] xorg 7.7

[David Demelier]

2013/3/11 Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org>

> The FreeBSD xorg team (x11@) presents this update of the FreeBSD xorg
> port to version 7.7.
> This CFT is intended to weed out as many bugs and regressions as
> possible before merging xorg 7.7 into ports, please test it as much as
> possible, to make it as good as can be.
> We need testers of both new and old xorg, on as many architectures and
> hardware combinations as possible.
> Please report both successes and failures, and remember to include which
> architecture, graphics card, version of FreeBSD and compiler you are
> using, as well as relevant logs if any.
>
> This CFT and any updates can either be obtained using SVN from
> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-7.7 .
> Once this ports overlay is obtained, it is necessary to run the
> xorgmerge script, obtainable here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge .
> Please don't forget to update directories before running this script.
>
> A patch against the ports tree is also available, and can be obtained
> from http://people.freebsd.org/~zeising/xorg-7.7.diff .
> Apply this using either
> svn patch /path/to/xorg-7.7.diff
> if your ports tree is managed by svn or
> patch -p0 -E < /path/to/xorg-7.7.diff
> if your ports tree is managed by portsnap
> Remember -E, so that empty files are removed.
> This patch will be kept as up to date as possible, but might lag a
> little behind the SVN repository.
>
> Once the patch is in your ports tree, to build the old xorg, just cd to
> /usr/ports/x11/xorg and run make install.
> To get the new xorg, first set WITH_NEW_XORG in /etc/make.conf then
> proceed as above.
>
> Hopefully we will also be able to make packages and test images
> available for use, however, this is not done yet.  A link for these
> packages and images will be posted in a follow-up mail.
>
> In this CFT:
> * xorg-server 1.12.4 (WITH_NEW_XORG)
> * Mesa 8.0.5 (WITH_NEW_XORG)
> * Updated dri
> * libX11 1.5
> * libxcb 1.8
> * updates for drivers
> * Updates for all other utilities and libraries
>
> Known issues:
> The issues with imake and makedepend requiring a gnu compatible cpp is
> not yet resolved.
> Hardware acceleration for certain ATI radeon cards might no longer work,
> if compiled with WITH_NEW_XORG.  This is expected to be resolved once
> the work of porting TTM/KMS for radeon is completed.
>
>
Thank you very much, thus people that have still old radeon cards such as
4xxx that does not need KMS can just go on with xorg without WITH_NEW_XORG
set right?

For more information see https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg or come visit us
> on IRC, #freebsd-xorg @ EFNet
> Best Regards
>

Regards,

-- 
Demelier David