[HEADS UP] WITH_NEW_XORG is now the default on FreeBSD 10 and 9 stable

[Tom Evans]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Niclas Zeising
<zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se> wrote:
> On 05/12/14 18:18, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> My host is running 10.0-RELEASE-p2 with jails. I would like to test new
>> xorg with vt(9) in a jail. The above new release states that the new
>> xorg will soon have a pkgng version.
>
> For hardware access reasons, I believe it is not possible to run X in a
> jail currently.

This is true, although there is a patch to allow it:

http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/PATCH-Xorg-in-a-jail-td5892813.html

(The patch from Alexander's email, not mine)

Cheers

Tom