On 4/1/07, David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:15:46 -0400
> > "Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> A while back I filed a PR about the /tmp/.ICE-unix thing.  The
> >> workaround is actually the solution AFAIK; see x11/kdelibs3/MESSAGE.
> >
> > I moved my code to do that to /etc/rc.conf.d/kdm.  Perhaps it should be
> > in /etc/rc.d/kdm?
> >>
> >> Re: TLS; I don't know if there's an option for this, but maybe you
> >> could use gnutls instead?
> >
> > I have no idea how to do that with kde.
> >>
> >> Modular Xorg in pkgsrc nearing the point where you might consider
> >> using it in production; have you considered an upgrade path yet?
> >>
> > It doesn't support X servers yet, a requirement for that machine.  Nor
> > is it a machine I use (and hence can work around problems with), so I'm
> > unwilling to put experimental software on it.
>
>  	Its been supporting X servers for a while now - I'm running
>  	xf86-video-ati on my Thinkpad T41p, an Asus 9600 based laptop
>  	and a shuttle with a 9550, xf86-video-vesa on an X700 based
>  	laptop, and xf86-video-i810 on an old i810 dell desktop.
>
>  	What its lacked has been a meta package to pull in all the
>  	drivers, but joerg added meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers :)
>
>  	Be warned, the ati driver at least leaves the console with
>  	"extremely dark grey on black text" on exit, though the
>  	vesa driver is better behaved.
>
>  	KDE3 & freevo also seem happy, and just ran a quick scratch
>  	test of Kmail and it seemed happy to send over TLS (I use
>  	a different MUA normally)
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Apply x11/xorg-libs/patches/patch-af to the xf86-video-ati driver
source and make replace.  Thanks jmcneill! :)

This should be added as a patch to xf86-video-ati, IMO.  Even better:
they should fix it upstream.

--Blair

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