[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

[Chris Bannister]

Its a feature not a bug :P [1]

[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=507746#p507746

2009/3/3 Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Flávio Coutinho da Costa
>