Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> I built it off the cvsweb tree, damn, I should have remembered which
> module it stuffed up in, anyway, it stopped compiling, and basically I
> was at the end of my teather - unfortunately I have very limited
> patience when things like that occur; if it doesn't work, I simply give
> up - lazy? probably, but I just don't have the time to spend hours
> tracking down the problem, and correcting them.
Then you picked the wrong OS to go to, since Xorg 7.1 is at least tested
and working on Solaris. Support for BSD releases is still being worked
on by the BSD X maintainers, so you'll have a much harder time building it
on FreeBSD than on Solaris. (With the build system revamp in Xorg 7.0,
only Solaris & Linux were initially supported, since Sun, Red Hat, SuSE,
Ubuntu & Gentoo provided the bulk of the development effort.)
Xorg 6.9 performs nicely on my FreeBSD box, besides the DRI issue (which hopefully get corrected), I expect a delay due to the nature of this new, more modular approach.
> I was hopeing to bring the Xorg kicking and screaming into 2006, but it
> seems to be more painful that I expected. I'm probably better to wait
> till the next version of Solaris is released.
We already ship 6.9.0 which was released at the end of December, and is the
same source code as 7.0, only with the old build system still - the change
between that and 7.1 is not that major. What are you looking for that you
don't already have?
As a desktop, the lag is terrible, I'm using a Radeon X300/550 sitting on a PCIe; all lovely-jubbly - running FreeBSD, my desktop with KDE is 'teh snappy' (to coin a Mac phrase), but when it comes to using the default Xorg with Solaris 10 01/06 (which is 6.8.2), coupled with the drivers provided, there is terrible lag, especially when it comes to responsiveness under a heavy load.
The problem is made worse when compiling things on Solaris - the paths aren't setup, things break when compiling, its a nightmare just trying to get KDE working - which is the original reason why I was compiling Xorg 7.1 on Solaris 10; to have a nice snappy server, KDE desktop.
Matty
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