[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

[Flavio Costa]

Oh yeah, you are right, thanks Chris. To be honest I've read it sometime ago
but completelly forgot about it. Pressing Control+Alt+Backspace was so
normal =)
I coulnd't read the thread you pasted, but I found a little article in the
Ubuntu's wiki that explains how to disable/enable this little feature.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap

I still canno't issue "Alt-F2" (Run application in Gnome, I believe the
shortcut is the same for KDE)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Chris Bannister <c.bannister at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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Flávio Coutinho da Costa