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I am ~x86 for all of my machines except my firewall, so I am using 6.8.0 |
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for everything except my Maya box, which has to run 6.7.0 because of |
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issues with ATI's binary driver and 6.8.0. (although my ATI developer |
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contacts say it'll probably happen soon, but part of the problem is a |
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BIG ATI release that should put ATI's OpenGL on par or better than their |
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Windows OpenGL) All in all, I would probably choose to use 6.8.0 on an |
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otherwise stable box. Should just need to: |
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echo x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0 x86 > /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Thus spake Stuart Stegall on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:16:01PM CDT |
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>>1. This all happened as a result of a licence change by XFree86 plus |
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>>there were already becoming issues with how everyone in the community |
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>>thought the XFree86 "group" was handling everything. So XFree86 4.4RC2 |
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>>or 3 was forked and was finished and released X.Org 6.7.0, and then |
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>>recently a much improved X came out as X.Org 6.8.0. |
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>>2. For Gentoo users the most important things to know about XFree is |
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>>that many people want it pulled out of Portage altogether and I believe |
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>>there are outstanding unresolved bugs. |
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>>3. As far as VMWare, I assume you are talking about the vmware driver. |
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>>It is shown here: |
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>>http://www.freedesktop.org/~xorg/current/doc/vmware.4.html |
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>>AFAIK it's probably supported. |
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> Stuart, thanks for the reply on this. Looking at docs at freedesktop.org it |
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> looks as if the upgrade path should be straightforward, and that xorg.conf |
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> is compatible with XF86Config, or at least reasonably so. |
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> Any problems on the migration path that you know of? |
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> I note that Gentoo has xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 in the stable ebuilds, but |
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> xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, the release you mention, is available as an unstable |
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> ebuild. Which would you choose? |
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