On 07/04/14 16:28, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Patrick Powell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 07/04/14 14:23, Koop Mast wrote:
[...]
On 4-7-2014 22:49, Kevin Oberman wrote:
This discussion begs the question of why won't
WITH_NEW_XORG work for you?
I am aware of some pretty old hardware that simply has no
support in recent
Xorg servers, but these are pretty old by now. And, as
time passes, the bit
rot will make more and more things fail with the old code.
I am far from an X expert, but a post to x11@ of the
failure you see
WITH_NEW_XORG including the Xorg.0.log, /etc/make.conf,
/etc/src.conf and
any Xorg.conf you are using might get things working (and
might not). x11@
is a far better place to ask any of the questions about X
issues.
I should also recommend that, if you have not already
tried, move your
Xorg.conf aside and let X try to configure itself. It is
very rare to
require a full configuration these days. Most only need
things for added
fonts and extra modules. The xorg.conf on my laptop is
only about 27 lines
long and mostly added fonts.
ports/UPDATING states:
20140218:
AFFECTS: users of KDE SC 4
AUTHOR: [email protected]
KDE SC ports have been updated to 4.12.2. kdeadmin,
kdenetwork, kdesdk,
and kdetoys ports have been split due to upstream changes.
KDE Workspace port has been updated to 4.11.6. It requires
modern
Mesa libraries, provided by WITH_NEW_XORG knob. To update
Xorg ports
to newer version follow instructions at
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
So it not possible anymore to run KDE4 with WITHOUT_NEW_XORG.
-Koop
Ahhh!!! I missed that.
If this is the case, then perhaps the default for generating the
PKGNG repository should be WITH_NEW_XORG?
Then we could use the PKGNG respository for KDE4 applications.
OR: we could have two repositories: one which uses
WITHOUT_NEW_XORG and has the old Xorg drivers and no KDE4 support
and one with WITH_NEW_XORG which has the new Xorg drivers and KDE4
support.
I think I read some discussion about this possibility but I can't
recall the outcome.
Your timing is MOST excellent. Koop just announced those repositories
were available a few hours ago.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=306646+0+current/freebsd-announce
The repositories cover 9.x and 10.x for i386 and amd64.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Huzzah! Hurrah.... Ummm... hold on a bit here...
No 8.4 support? Why not just toss it in, with the usual:
Warning! Here there be dragons. Or at least untested and verified
packages. These have been compiled with make.conf containing:
MAKE_NEW_XORG=yes
At least doing this will provide KDE4 packages in an easy to access
fashion. As for the XORG support, this seems to work fine for me as
well, so I do not need compatibility with the old drivers...
Yes, yes... sloth.
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