Mateusz Jędrasik <imachine_at_toya.net.pl> wrote: > Also, the linux_dri port is utterly broken on FreeBSD-6 when using radeon > cards. > > Due to the late improvements by anholt towards a better radeon card support > for dri, the drm kernel module radeon.ko /in my case, built into the kernel/ > no longer works with terribly old dri libs. > > The solution I would best see here is bumping > emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 as > default linux compat, updating the unhappy ports to play nicely with such an > upgrade, and using xorg-dri drivers for linux_dri compatible with the > xorg-libs avaliable with emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3. > > I would gladly help doing that, as I am a little more familiar with ports > hacking rather than kernel hacking - far from perfect with it tho ;-) As the person which changed the default linux base from 7.x to 8.0: it's now easy to switch the default linux_base port (OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=suse-9.3 in make.conf to test it yourself), but you need at least one full ports build run. This is the "I'm lucky" case. Most probably you need 3-5 full port build runs until everyting which worked before works after the update too. But the ports tree is already tagged for 6.0 and the cluster is building the packages for every architecture. I also don't think we should switch the default such short before a release without important reasons (like the security reason which was the cause of the change from 7.x to 8.0). Luckily I had much of the work for the 7.x -> 8.0 transition done already (several hours spread over several months), but Kris and I spend several hours at Christmas to get it into a shape which we could ship. If you have a newer linux_dri version which works with linux_base-8, we can update the port and ask portmgr if they can update the release-packages. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough. -- Alan KayReceived on Mon Aug 29 2005 - 12:48:12 UTC
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