CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey
This is a resent with additional CC of the stable@ ML. This was done to get more exposure, because the first mail didn't get much reaction. When replying please only reply to freebsd-x11@, freebsd-ports@ and freebsd-stable@ are only used to get this a bigger audience. Greetings! This is a weird call for testers. First off before the real CFT. We are interested if people are still using 8.x for there desktop. Is there a specific reason for not updating to 9.x or 10.x? So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. We know that the graphics with the 2.7.1 intel driver are horribly broken (lots of artifacts) so people don't need to test that, but what is the state of the other xorg video drivers with cairo 1.12? If problems arise after the update, a screenshot and details about installed ports and your hardware should be enough. But if your using the intel driver with old xorg please chime in too, this will give us a beter idea about the user base. While this CFT is focused on the non-WITH_NEW_XORG that should not stop people that are using WITH_NEW_XORG from trying it out. The Intel/Radeon KMS drivers shouldn't have any problem with cairo 1.12. To apply the patch do the following: Download the patch from [1]. cd /usr/ports patch -p0 /path/to/cairo-1.12.16.diff rebuild cairo -Koop [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/cairo-1.12.16.diff ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CFT for cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:28:58 +0100 Koop Mast k...@rainbow-runner.nl wrote: Greetings! This is a weird call for testers. First off before the real CFT. We are interested if people are still using 8.x for there desktop. Is there a specific reason for not updating to 9.x or 10.x? So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. We know that the graphics with the 2.7.1 intel driver are horribly broken (lots of artifacts) so people don't need to test that, but what is the state of the other xorg video drivers with cairo 1.12? If problems arise after the update, a screenshot and details about installed ports and your hardware should be enough. But if your using the intel driver with old xorg please chime in too, this will give us a beter idea about the user base. I'm using 8.4-STABLE on a box which has the on-board intel graphics and uses the xorg-7.7 / xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_6 driver. It seems to work reasonably for a fluxbox desktop although I do see occasional artifacts. I never expect much from on-board video. The information at http://bsdstats.org/bt/releases.html might be helpful since it shows quite a few 8.x users. I was a little surprised that the intel driver usage was among the higher numbers (512) for drivers being reported ( http://bsdstats.org/ports.php?category=93 ). I'm dragging my feet on updating to 10.x because of the large block of time needed to rebuild everything or to do a new install. There's still some time left before EOL of 8.x ( June 30, 2015 ) so I suspect that there will be others that are slow to update. It was only the EOL of 6.x that pushed me to 8.x. I tend to live on the trailing-edge ;-) Randy ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
CFT for cairo 1.12
When replying please only reply to freebsd-x11@, freebsd-ports@ is only used to get this a bigger audience. Greetings! This is a weird call for testers. So in our quest for push Xorg on FreeBSD further, we are looking for people to test cairo 1.12 primarily with the old Xorg stack. We know that the graphics with the 2.7.1 intel driver are horribly broken (lots of artifacts) so people don't need to test that, but what is the state of the other xorg video drivers with cairo 1.12? If problems arise after the update, a screenshot and details about installed ports and your hardware should be enough. While this CFT is focused on the non-WITH_NEW_XORG that should not stop people that are using WITH_NEW_XORG from trying it out. The Intel/Radeon KMS drivers shouldn't have any problem with cairo 1.12. To apply the patch do the following: Download the patch from [1]. cd /usr/ports patch -p0 /path/to/cairo-1.12.16.diff rebuild cairo We are also interested if people are still using 8.x for there desktop. Is there a specific reason for not updating to 9.x or 10.x? -Koop [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/cairo-1.12.16.diff ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
