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Hi! |
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See below. For a little more background: |
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http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2009/06/28/index.html#e2009-06-28T13_54_50.txt |
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Also note the glibc part of the same post. Maybe that'd warrant a news |
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item, too? What do the toolchain guys think? |
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As for my news item, what I'm not entirely sure about are the Displa-If- |
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headers (What I'm aiming for is to reach people who have installed *either* |
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xorg-x11 (and thus -server) or just xorg-server on any alpha profile) |
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Also, the last paragraph might reek a bit of politics, but I'm quite |
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comfortable with placing pressure on the Xorg guys via users. |
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Title: xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 kernel support |
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Author: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-x11 |
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Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server |
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Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha |
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Recent versions of xorg's X11 require kernel support to access PCI and |
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AGP graphic cards. This support has only recently been added to the |
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Linux kernel (vanilla-sources-2.6.30 and gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5). |
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Thus, you will need to run a recent enough kernel to use recent versions |
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of X11 on an alpha. If you only start programs on your alpha, but the |
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display is on another machine, no upgrade is necessary. |
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Furthermore, not all graphics card drivers have been updated to work |
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with the newer X server API. One example is the glint driver used for |
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Permedia cards. The upstream developers have been informed about this, |
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but nothing has happened so far. |
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