[arch-dev-public] X.org 7.3 about to hit Testing
Hey all, I've had several discussions with devs and users about X.org 7.3 and the question why it was not yet pushed to testing. My reasons were the ABI changes that rendered nvidia drivers unusable and I had no reports on fglrx so far. Now that nvidia released version 100.14.19 the -ignoreABI workaround is not necessary anymore. The legacy drivers have not yet been updated though and still no definite reports on fglrx. I would very much like to push 7.3 to testing still, as it would save a great deal of work since I would only have to maintain one version of it. What are your thoughts? Cheers, -F
Am Samstag, 22. September 2007 19:09:57 schrieb Alexander Baldeck:
What are your thoughts?
Move it. That's why we have [testing]. Lets take the chance to find some more bugs. Pierre -- archlinux.de
Saturday 22 September 2007, Pierre Schmitz wrote: | Move it. That's why we have [testing]. Lets take the chance to | find some more bugs. yea, exactly! warn the users and then put it in [testing]. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 22 September 2007, Pierre Schmitz wrote: | Move it. That's why we have [testing]. Lets take the chance to | find some more bugs.
yea, exactly! warn the users and then put it in [testing].
- D
Draft of the news item, comments please! :) =============================================================== <h2>Xorg 7.3 hits testing</h2> Hello all, the new X.org will be pushed to testing in the next few hours. xorg-server 1.4 comes with many core changes such as: * stable releases of xf86-video-intel * randr 1.2 * xorg.conf becomes <b>partially</b> obsolete * an updated ABI for drivers The latter does break Nvidia's legacy drivers. So everyone using nvidia-96xx or nvidia-71xx should either wait until Nvidia fixes the issue or use xf86-video-nv in the meantime. As usual feel free to file bugs for all issues you can find.
Alexander Baldeck wrote:
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 22 September 2007, Pierre Schmitz wrote: | Move it. That's why we have [testing]. Lets take the chance to | find some more bugs.
yea, exactly! warn the users and then put it in [testing].
- D
Draft of the news item, comments please! :)
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<h2>Xorg 7.3 hits testing</h2>
Hello all,
the new X.org will be pushed to testing in the next few hours. xorg-server 1.4 comes with many core changes such as:
* stable releases of xf86-video-intel * randr 1.2 * xorg.conf becomes <b>partially</b> obsolete * an updated ABI for drivers
The latter does break Nvidia's legacy drivers. So everyone using , so
Since we're editing, the above should be comma lower-case. I think starting the sentence with so may be technically correct in some circumstances, but should still be avoided.
nvidia-96xx or nvidia-71xx should either wait until Nvidia fixes the issue or use xf86-video-nv in the meantime.
As usual feel free to file bugs for all issues you can find.
Great job, thanks for remembering to draft! - P
Thanks for the hints so far! Draft version2: =============================================================== <h2>Xorg 7.3 hits testing</h2> Hello all, the new X.org will be pushed the [testing] repository in the next few hours. xorg-server 1.4 comes with many core changes such as: * a stable release of xf86-video-intel * randr 1.2 * xorg.conf becomes <b>partially</b> obsolete * an updated ABI for drivers The ABI change breaks Nvidia's legacy drivers, so everyone using nvidia-96xx or nvidia-71xx should either wait until Nvidia fixes the issue or use xf86-video-nv in the meantime. As usual, feel free to file bugs for all issues you can find.
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | the new X.org will be pushed the [testing] repository in the next | few The new X.org will be pushed to the [testing] repository in the next ^ ^^ otherwise green light :) - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | the new X.org will be pushed the [testing] repository in the next | few
The new X.org will be pushed to the [testing] repository in the next ^ ^^
otherwise green light :)
- D
Cool, I'll put it up then. It could get very late though as I don't have much upstream bandwidth here, heh. Cheers, -L
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | Cool, I'll put it up then. It could get very late though as I | don't have much upstream bandwidth here, heh. i feel with you.... me having also a sending power of 96bps in the ideal case. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | Cool, I'll put it up then. It could get very late though as I | don't have much upstream bandwidth here, heh.
i feel with you.... me having also a sending power of 96bps in the ideal case.
- D
I'm happy that I'm not Andy building & uploading OpenOffice at his house. ;) Cheers, -W
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | I'm happy that I'm not Andy building & uploading OpenOffice at his | house. ;) i remember uploading kde some years ago over night, that was fun :) ... you set it up in the evening and when you are eating breakfast, the last pkg is going to the server ;) i wish i would live in a more-high-speed-country, - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
On 9/22/07, Alexander Baldeck <kth5@archlinuxppc.org> wrote:
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | the new X.org will be pushed the [testing] repository in the next | few
The new X.org will be pushed to the [testing] repository in the next ^ ^^
otherwise green light :)
- D
Cool, I'll put it up then. It could get very late though as I don't have much upstream bandwidth here, heh.
Yeah great job on this guys. I was out of town a bit this weekend so didn't see this pop up, but I just wanted to cheer for everyone involved. Yay. -- Aaron
Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Baldeck wrote: | <h2>Xorg 7.3 hits testing</h2> | | Hello all, | | the new X.org will be pushed to testing in the next few hours. | xorg-server 1.4 comes with many core changes such as: The ... [testing] repository ... (for the newbies and officially oriented people) | * stable releases of xf86-video-intel | * randr 1.2 | * xorg.conf becomes <b>partially</b> obsolete | * an updated ABI for drivers | | The latter does break Nvidia's legacy drivers. So everyone using | nvidia-96xx or nvidia-71xx should either wait until Nvidia fixes | the issue or use xf86-video-nv in the meantime. The latter breaks ... (or you can stress it, both are fine) | As usual feel free to file bugs for all issues you can find. As usual, feel free ... (, , , , , , , - i keep also forgetting them in english *smile*) otherwise great :) - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
for the record community/x11/linuxwacom the wacom input driver does not work with xorg-server 1.4 (yet) it fails to compile and the linuxwacom people are aware of this. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1674453&group_id=69596&atid=525127 this breaks all input devices that use the wacom input driver in latest xorg in testing. linuxwacom 0.8.0 should fix this, but is not yet ready. as wacom input devices are secondary input devices (usually you have a mouse in addition), it is not a main priority wait-for-it issue. but it should be mentioned, since it breaks quite a lot of devices input. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><
participants (5)
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Aaron Griffin
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Alexander Baldeck
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Damir Perisa
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Paul Mattal
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Pierre Schmitz