On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:05:51PM +1100, Sunnz wrote: > Ok I am keen to be a tester, any documentation on how does one test > and send useful information to the port maintainer? (Will be getting > -current, but that's only the first step.)
Be aware that you need to rebuild all ports using X from source. I'm just telling you this in advance, since I need OO + KDE, well it took "some" time until I had them, but otherwise I'm was very impressed by the stability (haven't had a single crash since 06.01.07). > I have learnt C from college as well, so I like to do a bit of code > too if I can... any documentation on how Xorg was ported and such? > > Linkage would be good. > Thanks. > > 2007/3/1, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:22:22AM +0100, Andreas Maus wrote: > >> On 3/1/07, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >I have an nVidia 7600GS Graphics card, and attempted to get it to work > >> >with the NV(4) driver. > >> > >> This is not a hardware problem. It is the nv driver. > >> I had similar problems with my 7800GS. > >> The thread was discussed here: > >> > >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=116017301426487&w=2 > >> > >> As a workaround you have to use the vesa driver till we have X 7.x > > > >> P.S.: By the way ... will we switch to X 7.x in 4.1 ? The vesa driver > >> can be annoying, because I can't watch movies in fullscreen with > >mplayer. ;) > > > >No, but you can already use 7.1 in -current. (To help with testing, > >obviously, and some stuff is still broken. So it's not a good idea if > >you want the easy way out. Xenocara, and 7.1, will be merged as soon as > >4.1 is sent to the CD guys). > > > > Joachim Regards, ahb
