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
o Update randrproto, libXrandr and xrandr to 1.3.0
o Update xf86-video-intel to 2.6.3
o Update other less common drivers as needed
o Mark a bunch of un-maintained input drivers ignored
o Update the various slave X server ports as well
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libglut since the shlib
version number went from 4 to 3.
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libXaw as libXaw.so.8 isn't
installed anymore.
- Couple of ports fixes (mostly missing xorg components added to USE_XORG).
- Mark XFree86-4 as DEPRECATED with EXPIRATION_DATE set to 2007-12-25.
I hope that nobody will be bored enough on Christmas to remove them on
that day.
Tested by: vehemens, Rene Ladan, Beech Rintoul, sarek on x11@
Release notes are available at
http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/RELNOTES.html
Thanks to kris and krion for running several cluster test builds,
maintainers of GNOME for prompt responses, portmgr for postponing ports
freeze for this update, testers on FreeBSD-X11@ list and others that I
might have mised here.
Also included:
- fix for ATI Mobility on Dell Inspiron 7500 (obtained from Marc Aurele La
France; obtained and tested by julian)
- fix for kbd driver on Sparc64 (tested by Aaron Dudek, Michael G. Jung and
Matthias Muthmann), which still appears to have problems with some
keyboards - so
- fix for kbd driver on PC98 (reported and tested by NAKAJI Hiroyuki; PR
ports/77217)
- fix for i810 on HP D530 (obtained from Egbert Eich; obtained and tested
by Anders Nor Berle; PR ports/74757)
DRI drivers are incompatible with the old libGL in XFree86, they have been
repocopied to graphics/xfree86-dri. Also note that with this commit the html
manpages are going away, and with it the runtime dependency on perl for the
imake port.
Release notes at: http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.1/RELNOTES.txt
Props to: kris (multiple cluster runs and sorting through logs)
lesi (fixing all the issues in those logs, and more)
