On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:56:04PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I am making good progress with BLFS. I've been concentrating on non-X
> packages, but in the next week or two, I'll be ready to do Xorg.
>
> Right now, the book has Xorg-7.6. If someone could help me out and let
> me know what the current version is and what the contents of the various
> wget lists should be, it would help me a lot.
>
> I'll be glad to do the testing and update the book.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Bruce
AFAIK, the current release is still 7.6. Of course, many of the
individual packages have had more releases. I guess the big
question (if you want to update it) is "do you want to stick with
the 1.9 server, or move to 1.10 ?"
For myself, I've kept to 1.9 at the moment (I didn't see any reason
to move to 1.10 on my current old hardware). Whichever you choose
has an effect on things like the version of evdev that matches the
server.
As I've said before, evdev is now the expected input driver
for linux, not kbd/mouse - this will affect what you put in
xorg.conf (assuming you use that) and may affect your ,xinitrc.
What I'm currently running has the events hardcoded, but on my other
box I'm using /dev/input/by-path which looks clearer and more
explicable:
(xorg.conf)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "evdev"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
Option "Device"
"/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
Option "Device"
"/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse"
EndSection
(.xinitrc)
# attempt to fix repeat of certain keys which differ
# between evdev and keyboard drivers, and are mapped as
# modifiers (no autorepeat) in evdev if e.g. hal not used.
xset r 113
xset r 116
- I guess the comment about hal is probably out of date.
ISTR these are two of the cursor keys, and that without these
additions vim in a term was not very pleasant.
Note that I don't build large parts of Xorg (particularly the core
fonts, also many of the miscellaneous progs), and only the radeon
video driver (and I have to patch that for my r100!).
Bruce - if the versions I'm using for 1.9 are of interest, please
ping me on Wednesday (bit busy at the moment).
ĸen
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