On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
Xorg-server 1.5RC6 (1.4.99.906) enters tesing. This version of xorg-server includes input hotplugging using hal, better EXA support and less memory usage. Note that this version requires an upgrade of all videodrivers. All videodrivers shipped with X.Org have been rebuilt to reflect this change. Nvidia drivers don't seem to need a rebuild, while AMD's catalyst drivers don't support the new X.Org version. Fglrx users should not upgrade to this version.
Please give this version of X.Org an extensive test run and report bugs.
I don't think any of the following are really bugs, at least they didn't cause me any troubles, so I am just giving feedbacks here. 1) As reported in FS#11357, Xorg failed to start because of RgbPath option which is no longer valid. And this is the main change I saw when I generated a new config with Xorg -configure. 2) I did not have evdev installed initially, and my keyboard settings worked fine. I saw a lot of warnings in Xorg.0.log about evdev missing so I tried to install it. After that, it seems my keyboard and mouse section in xorg.conf are ignored, it apparently uses evdev by default. I simply picked the keyboard layout in gnome gui, but I am not sure how it selects it, is it equivalent to setxkbmap? Otherwise the right way to configure it is to edit some hal config file? 3) I am using the intel driver and get a strange warning when running glxinfo or glxgears : Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic. And glxgears seems pretty slow. But I tried an opengl game (bzflags), and it ran amazingly well. I am pretty sure it ran much better than last time I tried. I found a report about the same TTM message, except I did not see any crash : http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13922 4) also some new scary intel warnings in the log (repeated twice) : (WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x00000001, instruction error (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.