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Hi! |
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Thanks ulm and fauli, here is a new version: |
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Title: xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 kernel support |
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Author: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: |
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Revision: 2 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server |
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Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha |
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Recent versions of xorg's X11 require kernel support to access PCI and |
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AGP graphic cards. This support has only recently been added to the |
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Linux kernel (sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.30 and |
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sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5). Thus, you will need to run a |
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recent enough kernel to use recent versions of X11 on an alpha. If you |
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only start programs on your alpha, but the display is on another |
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machine, no upgrade is necessary. |
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Furthermore, not all graphics card drivers have been updated to work |
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with the newer X server API. One example is the glint driver used for |
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Permedia cards. The upstream developers have been informed about this, |
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but but no fixes are available yet, please see |
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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546 |
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For a general guide to upgrading to Xorg 1.5, see the Gentoo upgrade |
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guide: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml |
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