Successful upgrade to Xorg 7.x

[SirDice]

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know my upgrade to Xorg 7.x was a success.
I have a GA-7DPX mainboard with a Nvidia FX 5200 graphics card.

I made sure Xorg 6.9.0, nvidia-driver (9631) and gnome2-lite were 
up2date before I started. Followed the instructions on 
http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg. I ran into one little snag 
building xorg-apps. It failed on configuring xdriinfo. It said something 
about needing GL even though it did find GL.1. I fixed it by 
reinstalling the nvidia-driver, after that xorg-apps and everything else 
build fine. Perhaps it would have been better to remove the 
nvidia-driver before the upgrade and reinstall it again instead of libGL 
(which I didn't install).

A startx complained about not finding nvidia and glx (I added ModulePath 
"/usr/X11R6/lib/xorg/modules"). These were installed in the "old" 
location (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ drivers and extensions). I moved these 
by hand to /usr/X11R6/lib/xorg/modules. After that everything started as 
usual. Xdriinfo does complain about libGL being too old though. I 
haven't figured out why yet, perhaps it is due to the config error I 
had. And I'm wondering if OpenGL works right now. But besides that 
everything else seems to work.

Since everything is modular now can I suggest creating an xorg-lite, if 
possible? That would install the absolute bare minimum, minimal fonts, 
no man pages, no documentation, no applications and no drivers. As you 
can easily add things you need/want with additional ports now anyway. I 
have no need for a i810 driver i.e. so why would I install it? 
Additional fonts, drivers and applications are installed as you like 
afterwards. That would keep my system clean and tidy :)

Anyway, great work guys! Hope to see the port appear in the ports tree 
real soon now.


Remko C.