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Hi folks, |
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For any of you stable folks already running X out there, xorg-x11-7.1 |
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went stable on mips yesterday. Please read the modular X migration |
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guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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before going through with the upgrade, as it will save you a lot of |
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headache. |
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However, there are a couple of things to note in particular for mips |
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with respect to USE_EXPAND. Please do no try to unset INPUT_DEVICES (in |
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other words, do not set INPUT_DEVICES="" in your environment anywhere), |
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or else you will run into a whooooooooole lot of broken deps. This is |
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currently a limitation of the xorg-server ebuild, and there isn't |
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anything we can do about it at this moment. As for VIDEO_CARDS, if you |
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do not set it, you will get five drivers, fbdev, newport, impact, dummy, |
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and v4l. Feel free to set this to whatever is appropriate for you. |
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Speaking of impact, the X driver for impact on ip28 (Indigo2 Impact |
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R10K) and ip30 (Octane) machines was committed upstream recently, and I |
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squeezed it into the tree just a few days ago. I know a lot of people |
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have been waiting for this, and now you won't have to use my ancient |
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binpkg or roll your own patchset and ebuilds anymore. Note that we are |
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bypassing normal QA procedures by stabilizing it so soon, however myself |
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and others have been extensively testing this driver and feel confident |
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that it is ready for end users at this time. However, please do report |
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any issues. To my knowledge, this makes us the only distro that |
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supports X on impact. |
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Have fun... |
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-Steve |
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P.S. There are some example xorg.conf files in |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/Xstuff/ |
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