Florent Thoumie

As you may have noticed, freebsd blog stuff has been down lately. Erwin was hosting everything and apache crashed while he was away. For some reason, people with root access to the machine couldn’t restart it and Erwin isn’t supposed to come back before a few days.

I decided to move everything to my own server, [...]

I haven’t blogged about this in a few weeks so I figured that could be a good time to give everybody an update.

It has been decided that the X11BASE to LOCALBASE migration would happen when we merge the new X.org in the ports tree. The necessary infrastructure changes have been done but some ports are [...]

With help from mlaier and sam, I finally committed my first significant contribution to the src tree.

Few months ago, anholt gave me email addresses of people at Intel that would be willing to discuss terms under which we could redistribute their firmwares. After a few emails (and some months), we came to an agreement. I [...]

I guess it’s time to review what I’ve done for the past year. Not much actually. I’ve focused on X.org ports while trying to get my ports up-to-date. There’s also the USE_LDCONFIG variable.

Anyway, I think I can tell that this was a very unproductive year. I guess I’ve spent too much time playing games and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

I’m finally back from France so I can focus on (important) work.

I’ve added compiz 0.3.6 to the exp tree and updated beryl to 0.1.4 (still have to add heliodor and aquamarine). I’ve also updated a few ports and fixed some issues (dri detection on !i386, removed sun drivers from the build on !sparc64). At the [...]