No heads up for X.org config changes?

[David Chisnall]

Hello x11 ports folk,

I updated X.org to the latest version at the weekend (actually, a week or two ago, but I didn’t restart it until then) and discovered that X would no longer start.  The fix appeared to be quite simple in the end - I had to replace ‘radeon’ in my driver line for my device section in xorg.conf with ‘modesetting’.  Apparently I probably also want Option     "AccelMethod"        “glamor” to enable 2D acceleration and need to add Load  “glamoregl” to my modules section.

None of this was documented.  I looked in the UPDATING entries for xorg-drivers and xorg, on the freebsd-x11 mailing list archives and in the form and didn’t find anything relevant.  Given that this update apparently broken any existing xorg.conf files that were configured to use DRI drivers, I imagine that other people were hit by it (though anyone using auto config was probably okay), so some public announcement (ideally in the UPDATING file, telling me I needed to update my config when I upgraded xorg-drivers) would have been nice.

David