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

By: Florent Thoumie

Florent Thoumie — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:27:17 +0000

Trying to answer everybody at the same time:

x nvidia-driver is currently broken with X.org 7.2 (cause it doesn’t install files at the right place), this is a known issue that will be fixed soon.
x I haven’t noticed any issue with the CFLAGS used when compiling nvidia-driver, if they’re indeed wrong, then you should notify the maintainer of the port (ie. not me)
x when we’ll do the PREFIX merge, we’ll also bump PORTREVISION for all ports installing files in /usr/X11R6, so when you’ll be done upgrading all your ports, there shouldn’t be any of them left in /usr/X11R6, which we know won’t be the case. You’ll have to check that there are no files left in /usr/X11R6, move them to /usr/local and it could be a good idea to create a symlink from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local.
x Yes, X.org 6.9 is going away, so if X.org 7.2 doesn’t work for you, report problems upstream ASAP.
x I don’t know about xdm issues cause I use gdm, but that doesn’t sound like a major issue to me, the font-alias problem should be fixed for quite some time now.

By: Gergely Czuczy

Gergely Czuczy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:56:03 +0000

hi there,

at january i’ve checked out the ModularXorg on my desktop, as it was described in the wikitest.freebsd.org page.
my experience was that it’s damn unstable. the building was done, there was no trouble with that. the trouble had started after trying to make it work… trouble.. it was a nightmare.
1) there was some troubles with fonts, fonts.cache/.dir/etc wasn’t installed properly and some default alias was missing
2) xdm didn’t work. i could log on, and that’s all.
3) if there was a backgrounding (etc ``gaim &’‘) in my ~/.xsession or in my ~/.fluxbox/startup, then xorg crashed.

i sent an email with the proper description of these to the proper mailing list, but i’ve got no replies.

the question is, will we get an unstable new shit by xorg 7.2 isntead of this good, old, legacy, working old crap?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:30:33 +0000

Enjoy France! Thanks for all the hard work.

By: Thomas Sparrevohn

Thomas Sparrevohn — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:32:25 +0000

I just looked at the nvidia-driver – seems unclear which GL X links against. but even worse the nvidia-driver compiles using standard not kmod flags – which give weird results if one uses different optimisation on the base system (e.g. SSE/MMX etc)

I submit a patch soon

By: Demonix

Demonix — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:11:04 +0000

I had to also change the path in x11/lib/Makefile to lib/xorg/modules/

Using 7.2RC 3_4

By: Gustavo Perez

Gustavo Perez — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:01:15 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve been able to install xorg and beryl in a fresh box without X. I found some problems during the installation.

Have to say that the box has a Geforce card (not so new not so old, but unfortunately not supported with the latest release of nvidia drivers, I think it’s a Ge4) and the drivers tried to install in the wrong place. Have to change two files :

x11/driver/Makefile
x11/extensions/Makefile

changing DRIVERDIR to ${X11BASE}/lib/xorg/modules/drivers and LIBDIR to ${X11BASE}/lib/xorg/modules/extensions. In posting that here ‘cause I don’t know where to report the problem (I think freebsd pr wouldn’t be the right thing to do, ‘cause xorg 7.2 isn’t in the port tree). I did all the process without NVIDIA_GL in the /etc/make.conf file. After that I removed libGL and installed nvidia-driver.

I think I had problems with libdrm but sure you’re aware of it as I found it reported around.

I’m dumping (literally) the filesystems of my laptop to dvd so I’ll try the process again. If I find something strange I’ll try to fix it and report.

One question is, what will happend after changing X11BASE to LOCALBASE ? I mean, what will be the process of migration for installations with X11BASE pointing to /usr/X11R6 ?

Greets