The Xorg Team is pleased to announce the next round of Xorg updates.
The team created a new flag called WITH_NEW_XORG that users can include
in /etc/make.conf. This was created for the intel KMS work being done
althouthough It probably works for other chips. Unfortunately, the intel
KMS driver will only work on FreeBSD 9(RELENG|STABLE) or 10/HEAD users.
Older version of FreeBSD will not be supported. Intel users will need
to patch their source manually with Konstantin?s KMS kernel patch to get
the newer chips to work. Please carefully read UPDATING entry.
Changes:
- libdrm 2.4.31 (including KMS support)
- mesa 7.11.2
- xorg-server 1.10.6
- a lot of new Graphic Drivers.
I would like to thank:
Koop Mast
Eitan Adler
Niclas Zeising
and all helpers and testers from x11@.
The X-Server has been patched to the latest 1.7.X series, drivers
and fonts have been updated to the latest versions. This update includes
some components from Xorg 7.6 with a lot of improvements, and it seems
that the performance is much better than the old version. Also this
Update fix build issues with clang and binutils 2.17.50 in current,
remove 6.X gruft and de-author pkg-descr.
I would like to thank:
Beat Gaetzi
Dima Panov
Koop Mast
Eitan Adler
and all Testers.
PR: ports/147646
ports/148035
ports/148744
ports/150223
ports/152889
ports/154457
The Intel drivers was patched to work with
the new server. The drivers for Vesa, NV,NVIDIA and
ATI have been tested thoroughfully and seem to work fine.
A complete changelog of Xorg 7.5 can you read here:
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/
A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: We strongly recommend you
to update your system to 7.x or above.
For updating try
portupgrade -af \*
or:
portmaster -af
Please report any problems and issus to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.
Thanks to beat@, rnoland@, fluffy@, stas@ and all testers for their help
and Feeback.
Tested by: Community and 2x exp-runs
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Something in the infrastructure changed in the late July timeframe that
actually caused this problem. The only major thing at that time was the
autoconf/libtool change, but I can't see how that could have caused this
failure mode. It only happens on 5.x; 6.x and 7.x are fine.
Approved by: portmgr (self)
