[arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?
On 04/04/2010 04:56 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:
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Things todo before this merges to extra: - Add documentation about input configuration to our wiki, as hal is deprecated now - Ask nvidia for a driver that works without ignoreABI, I'm sure they can give us a timeframe for that - Add xorg.conf.d config files for input drivers, right now only evdev and synaptics have config files - Fix xf86-video-siliconmotion, xf86-video-unichrome, xf86-video-nouveau
Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts. Cheers!
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 09:34 -0400, pyther wrote:
Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts.
Cheers!
Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel free to use the documentation from Fedora to add information to the Xorg input hotplugging wiki page.
On 04/09/2010 09:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 09:34 -0400, pyther wrote:
Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts.
Cheers!
Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel free to use the documentation from Fedora to add information to the Xorg input hotplugging wiki page.
Alright I started editing the wiki. The majority of the changes were made under the configuration section. I pretty much copied verbatim the InputClasses section. If someone can look over them and possibly improve the wiki I would appreciate it. Do we need 'Changes with modular Xorg' anymore? Do we need Automatic Configuration with hwd? From what I can gather hwd won't generate a working configuration with Xorg 1.8 ~pyther
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 16:01 -0400, pyther wrote:
Alright I started editing the wiki. The majority of the changes were made under the configuration section. I pretty much copied verbatim the InputClasses section. If someone can look over them and possibly improve the wiki I would appreciate it.
Do we need 'Changes with modular Xorg' anymore? Do we need Automatic Configuration with hwd? From what I can gather hwd won't generate a working configuration with Xorg 1.8
In case there's anything related to hwd in there: kill it. We don't support hwd as X.org configuration tool. The best autoconfiguration tool you can get is Xorg -configure, and these days even that is not needed anymore.
On 04/09/2010 05:20 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:
In case there's anything related to hwd in there: kill it. We don't support hwd as X.org configuration tool. The best autoconfiguration tool you can get is Xorg -configure, and these days even that is not needed anymore.
Done. Any opinion on the 'Changes with modular Xorg' section? If memory serves me correct, X.Org 7.0 introduced modular xorg and was released in Dec 2005. I feel that the only thing that we might want to integrate from that section would be 'Most Common Packages'. This section talks about the xf86-video* and xf86-input-* packages.
On 04/09/2010 09:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote:
Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel free to use the documentation from Fedora to add information to the Xorg input hotplugging wiki page.
Alright! I've attempted to clean up the wiki and update it to reflect changes in 1.8. There was a lot of outdated information in the troubleshooting section so I removed it. I worked with a few people in #archlinux @ freenode to determine what could be removed. I have made a lot of changes so if someone can go over the wiki to look for grammar and clarity errors that would be great. From what I can tell a lot of the configuration is similar between 1.6 and 1.8 besides the use of InputClasses. The fedora wiki states 'users are discouraged of putting X.org-specific configuration into udev rules files' Once xorg 1.8 gets merged into extra we will be able to clean up the wiki even more. I hope this helps!
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