Donnie Berkholz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:08:54 -0700:
> This is a reminder to everybody that now modular X is in ~arch, you need > to REMOVE YOUR MODULAR X UNMASK. > > We're getting lots of issues because people aren't doing this and are > getting package.mask'd versions of programs because they forgot about it. > > In particular, xorg-server 1.0.99 has an ABI break, which breaks all > Nvidia and ATI binary drivers. FWIW, I played with xorg-server 1.0.99 and the new ATI drivers (Radeon 9250, dual monitor in merged framebuffer mode, on amd64, compiled with gcc-4.1.0) for about 12 hours yesterday. There's some really nice improvements coming (with Option AccelMethod "EXA", the CPU cost of composite transparency/shadows/fading is virtually zero, and EXA is far more stable than in current ~arch), but as might be expected with an early release candidate, there's still enough issues that I eventually reverted back to ~arch, which now seems slow and CPU hungry with composite/transparency on, dull and stuffy without! <g> In particular: * The zoom hotkeys (CTRL-ALT-PLUS/MINUS) didn't work at all -- I had to use krandrtray which isn't the same since it shrinks the virtual desktop, not just the viewport. * krandrtray failed to restore a full sized desktop in some cases (this may be due to an error in the log I saw -- from memory so isn't exact, failed to allocate backup/restore memory, display may get corrupted) * Overlay was doing strange thing. In this case it was SDL overlay as used by dosbox -- I tried rebuilding both libsdl and dosbox, but the overlay still failed. Maybe related to the ABI change? * General instability, with both EXA and XAA. Not entirely unexpected at this point, and EXA is /vastly/ improved over both the current ~arch version and XAA (new and ~arch) efficiency-wise. Is it worth posting bugs on these yet? Gentoo or upstream? Any tracker bug to point me at? (I have the binpkgs so can remerge them for additional testing with little trouble, if necessary.) It's impressive enough to have me eagerly awaiting the next rc. Good work both here and upstream! Is the proposed schedule on the wiki at desktop.org still valid? A couple more RCs, and release in about a month if all goes well? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
