On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Martin Wilke <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Oy boys and gals, > > The Xorg T(m)eam is happy to announce the next round of Xorg fun! The X-Server > has been patched to the latest 1.7.X series, drivers and fonts have been > updated to the latest versions, but unfortunately we are not able to update > libGL, > drm and xorg-server to a higher version because FreeBSD doesn't support > GEM/KSE > (yet), but it looks good for now, as kib@ is working on that, so we hope the > future > will be better for us. 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. > We are calling the update xorg 7.5.1. > > We hope you will enjoy the new stuff and give us a lot of feedback. We will > start an > exp-run tonight and depending on how much feedback we get, we plan to commit > this > update by the first weekend of March. A note for ATI users, the driver was > updated to > 6.14.0, so you may need to add some stuff to your xorg.conf in the "Section > "Device"" > > Option "int10" "on" > Option "BudType" "PCIE" > Option "RendrAccel" "on" > Option "AccelMethod" "exa" > Option "DynamicPM" "on" > Option "DRI" "on" > > So to get the xorg stuff you will need to: > > run > > svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-dev > > A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree > can be found here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge > > The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script. Please set the > KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org ports. > > After merging, run one of the following command, depending on which tool > you use to manage your installed packages. > > portupgrade -a \* > portmaster -a > > Please report any problems and issues to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org. > > I would like to thank: > > Beat Gaetzi > Dima Panov > Koop Mast > Eitan Adler > > Without these people the Xorg update would still not be ready now. > > PS: Please don't send us mails with 'xorg update dosen't' work. > If you send us a report, please include the latest Xorg.conf > Xorg.log, uname -a output and pkg_info output. Thanks. > > Happy Updating! > > > - -- > +-----------------oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------+ > With best Regards, > Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org)
Working well here -- I see and "feel" noticeable improvement in screen drawing and interactivity with window items. Page scrolling in Firefox seems faster. Of course, it could be rather subjective :) An interesting thing as well, which I wasn't expecting: ACPI suspend/resume support has dramatically improved in speed and resilience. It takes just about a second for the display to come back on after resuming, where it would take between 3 to 5 seconds prior to the update. Cool :) A big "Thank You" to all of you! -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"