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Henrik Brix Andersen posted <1113912662.13564.5.camel@××××××.fungus>, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:11:02 +0200: |
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> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:15 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: |
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>> Is there a list of "major" changes for X.Org 6.9.0 (or whatever |
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>> release 6.8.99.* is leading to) somewhere? How far do you estimate |
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>> this release to be away? |
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> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/#head-7f9963a87b2eb461fc821f70af0cecbb33788ba8 |
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Very useful information, particularly the modularization proposal as |
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linked from there. |
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After reading The Modularization Proposal, and noting from the front page |
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linked above that it has apparently been adopted, I've still some |
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questions, mostly re Gentoo's implementation thereof. |
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The big one, how are we handling the modularization. It has been obvious |
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for some time from Donnie's comments that he's taking Gentoo's xorg toward |
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modularized, but that leaves open the question of how exactly it's going |
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to be done. |
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Is the modularization going to be handled much as the KDE splits were |
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handled? That is, as with KDE having both the multilithic (multi- due to |
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still having multiple category packages) and split ebuilds available for |
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3.4, will xorg 6.9 (current imake monolithic build system, according to |
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the link above) and 7.0 (modularized autotools based build) exist at the |
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same time, with xorg-7.0 being effectively a meta-ebuild of the multiple |
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individual packages, similar to kdebase-meta, or will we switch to |
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modularized immediately (or...)? |
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Once we go 7.0/modularized, what will it look like in terms of the |
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versioning of the individual components? As with KDE, are they going to |
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say in sync with the main upstream release, with individual new package |
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versions getting -rN revision numbers, or are we going to have individual |
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package versions with no relation to the xorg release, save for the |
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xorg-7.x meta-ebuild having deps on >= whatever the highest component |
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ebuild version for that particular package was at that point? |
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More to the immediate point, are the 6.8.99 snapshots going to be |
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modularized more or less as they become available upstream (if it's not |
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already happening, I haven't yet checked), or should we (I) expect a 6.99 |
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modularized meta-package set of snapshots to become available at some |
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point? |
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Finally, are all the Gentoo local system location changes now (as of |
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6.8.2-r1 or r2?) complete, or are there still more coming? IOW, are we |
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testers now testing /only/ new xorg code, or are we still testing local |
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system location changes as well? |
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... |
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Also, one more question, local xorg configuration related. I'm currently |
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running dual VGA screen xinerama on a single dual-output Radeon AGP card. |
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I'd /love/ to be able to run dual cards, an AGP and a PCI, letting me run |
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up to four monitors, but have tried several different hardware |
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arrangements and save for the success I had some time ago with a GForce2 |
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and NVidia's proprietary drivers (totalling three monitors on two cards), |
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I've not gotten it working. Is there an official list of dual card |
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supporting xorg drivers, anywhere, and/or perhaps an xorg-user list |
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dealing with such things? I did notice the note about r128 now supporting |
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dual-card layout in the changes since 6.8.2 doc linked from above, which |
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again reminded me that I'd like to get it working. 2 x 2048x1536, 21" |
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monitors, stacked for 2048x3072, is nice, but a 2x2 layout for 4096x3072 |
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total display area would DEFINITELY be nicer! =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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