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ATI Radeon HD 4550

Posted about 15 hours ago

I recently purchased new video cards for my system. I wanted to get the new cards working in CURRENT with the latest version of X from mports. After several lockups and other odd behavior, I found that I had to disable the second graphics card ... [More] (crossfireX in windows) in the X configuration along with removing the keyboard and mouse configuration. I was then able to start the X server with the radeonhd driver. Don't expect acceleration yet.

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Current updates related to mports

Posted 10 days ago

If you've had trouble building db45, db46 or db47 on current, try updating your sources. A fix was included in the world that corrects the problem. There have also been recent updates to fix crashing bugs with SSL enabled mports on current.

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mports work

Posted 10 days ago

www/browser3 is now building on some systems. It's been tested with current in a limited configuration so far. Please report success/failure with the port so we can improve it. (It's unbranded F* 3.0.11)

net-im/pidgin has been ... [More] updated to 2.5.8 which fixes several security vulnerabilities.

net-im/pidgin-twitter has been updated to .84

net-im/libpurple has been updated to 2.5.8 as well.

mail/linux-thunderbird has been updated and fixes a security vulnerability.

multimedia/gstreamer was updated to 0.10.23. This port hasn't been touched for two years, so it's a big update. The plugins ports will be updated soon. This does not include the update for the recently reported png vulnerability, but it does cover several others.

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Top blockers

Posted 12 days ago

Here's the top blockers list from the last magus run (151)

graphics/libmng: 193

devel/gvfs: 190

lang/gnustep-base: 107

graphics/libGL: 107

graphics/dri: 75

print/teTeX-texmf: ... [More] 27

x11-toolkits/libgnomeprintui: 14

lang/ruby18: 12

java/diablo-jdk16: 8

devel/libgtop: 6

graphics/graphviz: 5

textproc/docbook: 2

multimedia/xvid: 2

lang/ezm3: 2

databases/db46: 2

x11-toolkits/pangomm: 2

lang/ocaml: 2

misc/gnome-user-docs: 2

devel/gdb6: 1

x11-toolkits/gtkmm12: 1

graphics/libgnomecanvasmm: 1

multimedia/xmms: 1

textproc/redland: 1

mail/courier: 1

astro/libnova: 1

devel/hs-haddock: 1

mail/sendmail: 1

java/diablo-jdk15: 1

net/jags: 1

archivers/p5-IO-Compress-Bzip2: 1

audio/linux-libogg: 1

print/hs-hscolour: 1

multimedia/ffmpeg: 1

java/jakarta-commons-lang: 1

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Adventures in ZFS

Posted about 1 month ago

MidnightBSD current includes ZFS (version 6). Over the weekend, I got some time to kick the tires. A usb based disk was setup with a ZFS pool and some informal benchmarking was done. We also created a new ZFS kernel config file to help people ... [More] setting up a simple environment. Tuning is necessary with ZFS, but it's a good head start.

Results were promising overall. Since a formal methodology was not used, I won't post results. One thing to note is that magus will not work with ZFS.

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