Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Stuart Stegall <stuart@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Xorg-Toshiba Laptop
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:33:52
Message-Id: 4166EBFB.3020804@footworkmedia.com
1 I am ~x86 for all of my machines except my firewall, so I am using 6.8.0
2 for everything except my Maya box, which has to run 6.7.0 because of
3 issues with ATI's binary driver and 6.8.0. (although my ATI developer
4 contacts say it'll probably happen soon, but part of the problem is a
5 BIG ATI release that should put ATI's OpenGL on par or better than their
6 Windows OpenGL) All in all, I would probably choose to use 6.8.0 on an
7 otherwise stable box. Should just need to:
8 echo x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0 x86 > /etc/portage/package.keywords
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12 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
13 > Thus spake Stuart Stegall on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:16:01PM CDT
14 >
15 >>1. This all happened as a result of a licence change by XFree86 plus
16 >>there were already becoming issues with how everyone in the community
17 >>thought the XFree86 "group" was handling everything. So XFree86 4.4RC2
18 >>or 3 was forked and was finished and released X.Org 6.7.0, and then
19 >>recently a much improved X came out as X.Org 6.8.0.
20 >>
21 >>2. For Gentoo users the most important things to know about XFree is
22 >>that many people want it pulled out of Portage altogether and I believe
23 >>there are outstanding unresolved bugs.
24 >>
25 >>3. As far as VMWare, I assume you are talking about the vmware driver.
26 >>It is shown here:
27 >>http://www.freedesktop.org/~xorg/current/doc/vmware.4.html
28 >>
29 >>AFAIK it's probably supported.
30 >
31 >
32 > Stuart, thanks for the reply on this. Looking at docs at freedesktop.org it
33 > looks as if the upgrade path should be straightforward, and that xorg.conf
34 > is compatible with XF86Config, or at least reasonably so.
35 >
36 > Any problems on the migration path that you know of?
37 >
38 > I note that Gentoo has xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 in the stable ebuilds, but
39 > xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, the release you mention, is available as an unstable
40 > ebuild. Which would you choose?
41 >
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Re: [gentoo-desktop] Xorg-Toshiba Laptop Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>