[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 22:09:02 EST 2009


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:34 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.
>
>

I'm having problems with the intel drivers and OpenGL. With OpenGL
sceensavers, I don't really know how to describe it but I can guess
what's on the screen but it's garbled.  With some OpenGL games, I get
a black screen.  I get the following message on the terminal:
get fences failed: -1
param: 6, val: 0

I also get that message when running glxgears which works fine.  My video card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)

Ask if you need more informations.

Eric


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