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Donnie Berkholz posted <42669E8E.8000700@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:25:18 -0700: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> Will xorg 6.9 (monolithic) and 7.0 (modularized) exist at the same |
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>> time? |
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> I haven't decided yet. Well-justified arguments one way or the other |
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> would be useful. |
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> Whatever upstream's versioning scheme is will be followed here. I expect |
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> that versions will be independent of the "xorg" release number, but I'm |
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> not positive. |
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>> Finally, are all the Gentoo local system location changes now complete? |
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> Gentoo-local changes should be done, although upstream may be changing |
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> /usr/lib/modules to /usr/lib/xserver/modules or something along those |
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> lines, and perhaps a few similar changes. |
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>> Also, one more question, local xorg configuration related. |
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> http://www.botchco.com/alex/dualhead/ might help. It's by the guy who |
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> does much of the dual-head work in Xorg. |
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Thanks. From the (previous) link, it appears upstream versions will |
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indeed be independent, definitely so for hardware driver modules, anyway, |
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since the various vendors (at least those open sourcing) will be able to |
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directly control nearly all aspects of those modules, including |
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versioning, and at least some of them will obviously have their own |
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versioning schemes to follow. |
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That documentation provides as strong a clue as I've yet seen that ATI may |
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yet open up newer drivers again. The mentions of new/experimental Radeon |
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9800+ DRI support were interesting as well. I had a couple paragraphs |
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written on this but then decided the dev list wasn't the place to be |
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spamming it, so I'll just comment that this gives me new reasons for hope. |
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Thanks for the dualhead link as well. It's in my bookmarks now, for sure! |
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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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