[gentoo-amd64] Re: accelerated X 7.1 & ATI card

[Duncan]

p.pruszczak@××××××××.pl posted
20060820155956Z11036-13481+218@××××××××××××××.pl, excerpted below, on Sun,
20 Aug 2006 18:03:51 +0200:

> Duncan - where is masked xorg 7.2 ?? I do not see it in my
> /usr/portage/profiles ??

As best I know, what happened is that xorg-7.2 is very similar to 7.1, a
bugfix release with only some files updated.  As Gentoo now has modular-X,
what that means for Gentoo is that they didn't have to upgrade everything,
only some of the packages.  Note that the xorg-x11 package itself is a
meta-package, consisting almost entirely of dependencies.  Since all the
updates were bug fixes, they didn't put out an xorg-7.2 metapackage but
simply updated all the modular dependencies, which then got pulled in
under the xorg-7.1 metapackage as soon as they were unmasked.

What I do know is that very shortly after the public xorg-7.2 announcement,
several of the Gentoo xorg modules including xf86-video-ati and xorg-server
were updated.  I've always believed that group of updates were what
constituted xorg-7.2, for binary and non-modular distributions.

Anyway, that's what I'm referring to when I say xorg 7.2.  Maybe I've been
deluding myself.  =8^)

It was in an earlier reply but that one was long, so I'll repeat it here
where it's easy to find.  I'm running:

xf86-video-ati-6.6.1
xorg-server-1.1.1

I had thought that xorg now included 3D for the r300 series.  However, it
looks like it's still only 2D with the 6.6.1 I have (presumably xorg 7.2).
The new 3D support must still be upcoming, repository only at this point,
but I'd assume coming for 7.3.

Hope that clears things up.

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