Just to let everyone who does not already know; Mesa 7.1 is now out ! So, Xorg7.4 is really just around the corner.
Its a good idea we get Xorg7.4 ASAP as its got a *lot* of hot swap improvements in the area of projectors such as on Laptops and such. Thanks, Edward. 2008/8/30 ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>: > >From your other email and other email, I already am aware of your point of > >view. But, you may have missed Alan's comment to me on "posting a bug > >report" - in which I did based on his comment. > > I asked for Xorg 7.4 as a prelude of the release of it. Alan is already aware > of the issue of Mesa 7.1 integration as well as other things. I know this. > Yet, many people are trying to get things, like device drivers, working with > the current Sun implementation of Xorg. There are things we have not even > talked about or dwelved into - much in the scope of this forum but "out of > reach" for those not familar with Sun's XSun/Xorg history. > > Not this not a forum for flame wars, but an attempt to fix or just report on > long-standing issues with Sun's Xorg (or even XSun) or maybe even current > issues - as you yet stated yourself of issues you've had with things that > seem so simple. > > Alan has stated that XSun is over. Good. I mainly said in the bug report that > we are now at the crossroads where some of us want to explore new worlds with > things like Mesa 7.x, ATI R500/R600, and Intel 2.4.x support and development > on OpenSolaris. Once Alan corrected me on things to come with his work on > Xserver 1.5/Mesa 7.1 (which I knew already), I did say I'll await Sun's Xorg > 7.4 implementation into IPS. The bug report was just for tracking purposes - > nothing more but what it states. > > But I understand your point and respect it. Quoth the raven, 'nevermore.' > > ~ Ken Mays > > > > --- On Fri, 8/29/08, Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote: > >> From: Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> >> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] Xorg 7.4: The migration >> To: "Martin Bochnig" <mb1x at gmx.com>, xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org, >> maybird1776 at yahoo.com >> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 6:52 AM >> > Ken, aren't you shooting a bit over the top here? >> If you had filed this >> > "bug" half a year or so ago for 7.3, then >> maybe. >> >> And not even this, because 7.3 was not really a >> "release", but rather a snapshot of patchwork. It >> would not have been justified (given the few new features) >> to port all all all the patches to 7.3, basicly for almost >> nothing. Really. Do you thing a higher rev. of something is >> necessarily always the better choice? >> >> rgds. > > > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
