[kde-freebsd] kde4 upgrade

[Rusty Nejdl]

On 2012-07-05 13:54, joaoBR wrote:
> Em Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:16:46 -0500
> Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com> escreveu:
>
>> On 2012-07-05 05:20, joaoBR wrote:
>> > Em Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:38:07 -0500
>> > Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com> escreveu:
>> >
>> >> On 2012-07-03 06:18, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> >> > on 03/07/2012 14:11 joaoBR said the following:
>> >> >> is there really somebody using it on FreeBSD?
>> >> >
>> >> > I am using it. 4.8.4 upgrade using portmaster was as flawless 
>> as
>> >> > many 4.X upgrades
>> >> > before that.  On two machines.  I am not running into any
>> >> > problems that you describe.
>> >>
>> >> Ditto...  No problems here with an Nvidia card/FreeBSD 9 64bit.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I use 9-Stable i386
>> >
>> > are you referring to the openGL/Xrender thing?
>> >
>> > my card is ATI and I use radeon in xorg.conf, I also tried 
>> radeonhd,
>> > no differnce
>> >
>> > I have the same hardware as before and on before 4.8.4 opengl was
>> > working, after upgrade not
>> >
>> > and not only on 1 machine, the problem is repeated on 4 machines 
>> so
>> > far
>>
>> I had no problems with this upgrade.  I do not use kdepim and have 
>> an
>> nvidia card.  I have had worse upgrade experiences but had no issues
>> this round.
>>
>> I can only assume at this time that you are either not using default
>> options or this is because the radeon card is not well support on
>> FreeBSD.
>>
>> Rusty
>
>
>
> well, I do not believe that the problem is the driver because dri and
> opengl is available, KDE is not being able to use it ...
>
> $ glxinfo
> ..
> direct rendering: Yes
> ..
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.6.1
> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>
>
> Since I have not so much insight, I do not know if it matters but 
> while
> compiling workspace I saw a string about it not being able to find
> openGL
>
> I have nothing special and it was working before 4.8.4 on the same
> hardware

Well, unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to be able to help out too 
much on the radeon side of things.  Regarding ports, if you can let me 
know any non standard configs you have for them, I can try to reproduce 
what you have over here, possible in a VM to reproduce 32 bit since I 
run 64bit here.

Rusty Nejdl