XFree86 4.4 - an attempt on upgrading ports

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 13:23, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> * Dejan Lesjak [2004-04-17 17:51]:
> > I think that the fix for ati is critical for some people, so if anybody uses 
> > DPMS with radeon driver, they should get the version of ports with this 
> > patches here:
> > http://www.ijs.si/software/stuff/xfree44-ports_20040417c.tar.gz
> > The bugzilla URL is here:
> > http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221
> > 
> > I probably should also mention that XFree86-4-fontsScalable now includes 
> > Bitstream Vera fonts. The files do not get installed in same location though 
> > so this is not a CONFLICTS per se, but perhaps some message should be added 
> > or something.
> 
> Hi, Thank you both. With the latest ports, my AMD64/radeon works.
> I also tested a i386/via combination.
> 
> Having two bitstream-vera fonts installed is not a good solution. Probably
> the port is not necessary anymore. But in the past, the distributions with
> XFree have been out of date often (e.g. fontconfig), so it may be worth to
> keep them as a seperate port. Maybe the maintainers of bitstream-vera can
> propose a solution. 

It would be best to keep the port, and prevent XF86 from installing its
own.  This would make it easier to maintain both XF86 and fd.o's X
server in the tree.

Joe

> 
> Are there any other known issues left?
> 
> regards
> tilman
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