Upgrade to New Xorg

[trh411]

FreeBSD tortoise 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898

If I want to upgrade from the old to new Xorg, is it simply a matter of including

WITH_NEW_XORG="YES"

in /etc/make.conf and doing a make reinstall clean of the x11/xorg meta port?

If it matters, my system is a 2008 iMac with a Nvidia GEForce 8800, which uses the nv driver.

 

[cpm@]

Yes, it's correct to add to /etc/make.conf:

WITH_NEW_XORG=yes

Then rebuild graphics/libdrm, graphics/libGLU, graphics/libGL, x11-servers/xorg-server, xf86-input-*, and xf86-video-* ports. After previous steps, you can go ahead in some cases.

According to wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg if you use a nVidia graphics card it's necessary. You should follow the Section 2. Setting up the FreeBSD nVidia driver that it's described in the Handbook.