[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

[Flavio Costa]

I can't Control-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server anymore.
Same for some gnome shortcuts and they were working smoothly before the
update.

Is anyone experiencing this problem too?
Any info I can provide so that you can debug this?

Despite of that EXA and UXA are working pretty smooth with my Intel graphic
card, FPS is much higher than it was after the GEM was introduced in .28 and
there was no XF86 driver supporting it.

Nice job!

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a lot of workarounds and
> patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes easier to understand, as
> even its maintainer has no idea what is happening anymore. When
> upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these file conflicts on most
> systems:
>
> error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
> xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in
> filesystem
> xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem
>
> It's safe and advised to overwrite these files. The symlinks were
> previously created from post_install by the xorg-server and nvidia-utils
> packages. It is advised to install xorg-server first by using "pacman
> -Sf xorg-server", after which you can upgrade the rest of your system.
>
> This release of xorg-server requires a rebuild of all video and input
> drivers. Older drivers will fail to load with an ABI mismatch. Drivers
> in our repositories will receive an update to match the xorg-server ABI.
>
> Nvidia has updated their latest drivers with support for this version of
> xorg-server. AMD does not support xorg-server-1.6 yet in their Catalyst
> drivers. AMD users are advised to switch to the xf86-video-ati or
> xf86-video-radeonhd drivers instead, or keep any X.Org related updates
> on hold via IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. This can be done by putting
> xorg-server in IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. All other updates should have
> conflicts set, so it will be clear which additional packages should be
> added to the IgnorePkg list on your system. Note that there will be no
> support for older versions of xorg-server when this version moves to
> extra.
>
>


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Flávio Coutinho da Costa