Monthly Archives: February 2007

X.org 7.2 has been released, but not in ports yet

Posted by Florent Thoumie on February 16, 2007 6 comments

As you may have noticed, ajax just announced the release of X.org X11R7.2.

There are a few things left to do for me before it is ready for inclusion in ports, some of them are: update a few ports, write minimal support for XORG_LITE, fix nvidia-driver, send a new tarball of the tree to kris to run a new experimental build, fix remaining failing ports, ...

As I previously said, we’ll do the PREFIX merge at the same time, so this is something that delays the X.org update merge even more. So please stop asking for a schedule, it will be merged as soon as we’re ready. I hope to be ready for the end of february, but since I’ll be spending the next week end in France, it may not be the case.

CFT: Hoststated port – Host status daemon for server load-balancing

Posted by Florent Thoumie on February 8, 2007 5 comments

I’ve sent a WIP port few days ago to some mailing lists but got no feedback yet. I think this is a valuable piece of software to have in the ports collection but I’m not going to commit it without at least two success reports. So go ahead and try it, now!

If you don’t know what it is or don’t know how to find the port, check out the announcement.

New icons and cursors ports

Posted by Florent Thoumie on February 7, 2007 Comments Off

Jimmac posted a blog entry about his new cursors set yesterday so I took a few minutes to create both ports. Update your ports tree and have a look at cursor-dmz-theme and cursor-dmz-aa-theme.

Also, I’ve had these extra tango icons installed on my machine for a while now, port was ready but I didn’t feel like maintaining them. Since there haven’t been any update lately, I figured it wouldn’t be such a burden to maintain it, so it’s now in x11-themes/icons-tango-extras

DRM synchronized on RELENG_6

Posted by Florent Thoumie on February 3, 2007 5 comments

I just MFC’ed latest DRM changes in RELENG_6. If you happen to have a i965-based chipset and couldn’t get dri working, this is your lucky day :-)

flz 1 – 0 libxklavier

Posted by Florent Thoumie on February 2, 2007 3 comments

I’d like to kick in the butt that guy who decided that setting XKB_BIN_BASE to XKB_BASE as default was a good idea.

If you’re using X.org 7.2 from the experimental tree and you tried to use anything special in keyboard properties, you probably got an XKB error. I spent a significant amount of time trying to find that bug, and I just noticed that, for some reason, libxklavier tried to execute /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/xkbcomp. WTF!! So using the right configure switch (—with-xkb-bin-base=${X11BASE}/bin) it’s fixed.

One showstopper down. We’re not too far from the holy day.

PS: I somewhat decided that we’ll do the PREFIX merge at the same time that we’ll commit the new X.org so it’s likely to delay the merge a bit.