[CFT] xorg 7.7

[Alexander Yerenkow]

2013/3/12 David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>

> 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?
>

You probably could also modify radeon port, add --disable-kms and rebuild
it, all should be fine.
I'll come up in near days with prebuilt images with all these stuff, to
test it easily.


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