Re: Upgrade modular Xorg?

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:38:06 +0200
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:

> Is there any plan to upgrade modular Xorg in pkgsrc?
> While solving an issue described here
> 
>   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2010/01/12/msg005324.html
> 
> I locally upgraded several X packages including
> 
>   x11/xf86-video-nv
>   x11/xf86-input-mouse
>   x11/xf86-input-keyboard
>   x11/xextproto
>   x11/modular-xorg-server
>   x11/inputproto
>   x11/fixesproto
>   devel/xorg-util-macros
> 
> to the latest versions and created a new one
> 
>   wip/modular-xorg-nv-current
> 
> and have patches if anybody need them.
> 
> Motivation for upgrade: latest xv(4), nouveau(4) and maybe others need
> Xorg server >= 1.7. Obviously latest graphic cards require latest drivers
> as well.

Due to the amount of code churn going on upstream, I understand that
nobody wants to touch this issue. Unless I'm mistaken we cannot proceed
with this update without KMS or equivalent if we want the intel
driver to still work.

-Tobias