Am Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:27:18 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de>:
Am Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:10:44 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Am 19.06.2010 14:03, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
This release will be moved to core after signoff, together with linux-firmware, initscripts, udev and mkinitcpio. Changes compared to -1:
Remove kernel26-firmware package, it is replaced by linux-firmware added new tcp options FS#19604 (tpowa) Enable devtmpfs Add makedepends to build kernel26-{manpages,docs} properly Fix makepkg -R
Please sign off.
Okay, one of the Xorg guys (Jan, Andy?) should draft a new announcement about 1) configuration changes with the new Xorg (xorg.conf.d, hal removed), 2) dropping nvidia-{173xx,96xx} until nvidia releases updated versions.
It seems we want to move Xorg and the kernel at the same time, so that announce should be out before the move.
We already had
http://www.archlinux.org/news/499/ + http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-April/016387.htm...
Changes to input device configuration are collected in our wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29
Just point to this section.
Ati and Nouveau changes should work without any interaction. No idea about the closed drivers. I don't follow them. If you think we need an announcement just point to the wiki and maybe the old news and add a note about NVidia changes.
-Andy
News draft: Xorg 1.8 moves to extra: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend to use the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now.