On 02/14/2010 07:55 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Mostly to DJ, FYI for everyone else. Especially for Dan out there lurking! > > What is the state of the current Xorg installation in BLFS? > > Is it close to what is going to be released in BLFS-6.5? > > Will there be significant changes that would cause incompatibilities > with the current Xorg installation? > > Pretty close. Give me about 5 minutes to add the comments at the top, and I'll put updated wget files in the repo for you. Only a couple of minor updates in those, I think fonts are even the same, and then libdrm-2.4.17, Mesa-7.6.1, xkeyboard-config-1.8, and xorg-server-1.7.4. Also of interest in that stack is fontconfig-2.8.0 and freeglut-2.6.0.
Instructions are the same, however, I had planned to do something with the text surrounding the legacy 'Xorg -Configure' bit...though it works fine with the two blacklisted drivers commented out of the driver list, so we aren't really doing anything bad by mentioning it, other than forgetting to mention that it is not at all required. Using Xorg provided drivers, there is no need for an xorg.conf at all. This changes, of course, if you need binary AMD or nVidia drivers, or need to change the resolution of your graphical login manager, or rather I should say that I haven't found another way yet. I haven't really looked into it either. KDE, and Gnome provide the means to change resolution at startup/login within their own respective tools, based on the users' preferences. I'd also be willing to bet that XFCE and E14 have their own ways as well, though I have not verified that, but an xrandr command in your .xprofile or .xinitrc would do the trick nicely if they do not. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
