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Donnie Berkholz posted <44471766.7000605@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:08:54 -0700: |
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> This is a reminder to everybody that now modular X is in ~arch, you need |
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> to REMOVE YOUR MODULAR X UNMASK. |
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> We're getting lots of issues because people aren't doing this and are |
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> getting package.mask'd versions of programs because they forgot about it. |
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> In particular, xorg-server 1.0.99 has an ABI break, which breaks all |
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> Nvidia and ATI binary drivers. |
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FWIW, I played with xorg-server 1.0.99 and the new ATI drivers (Radeon |
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9250, dual monitor in merged framebuffer mode, on amd64, compiled with |
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gcc-4.1.0) for about 12 hours yesterday. There's some really nice |
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improvements coming (with Option AccelMethod "EXA", the CPU cost of |
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composite transparency/shadows/fading is virtually zero, and EXA is far |
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more stable than in current ~arch), but as might be expected with an early |
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release candidate, there's still enough issues that I eventually reverted |
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back to ~arch, which now seems slow and CPU hungry with |
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composite/transparency on, dull and stuffy without! <g> |
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In particular: |
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* The zoom hotkeys (CTRL-ALT-PLUS/MINUS) didn't work at all -- I had to |
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use krandrtray which isn't the same since it shrinks the virtual desktop, |
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not just the viewport. |
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* krandrtray failed to restore a full sized desktop in some cases (this |
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may be due to an error in the log I saw -- from memory so isn't exact, |
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failed to allocate backup/restore memory, display may get corrupted) |
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* Overlay was doing strange thing. In this case it was SDL overlay as |
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used by dosbox -- I tried rebuilding both libsdl and dosbox, but the |
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overlay still failed. Maybe related to the ABI change? |
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* General instability, with both EXA and XAA. Not entirely unexpected at |
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this point, and EXA is /vastly/ improved over both the current ~arch |
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version and XAA (new and ~arch) efficiency-wise. |
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Is it worth posting bugs on these yet? Gentoo or upstream? Any tracker |
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bug to point me at? (I have the binpkgs so can remerge them for |
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additional testing with little trouble, if necessary.) |
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It's impressive enough to have me eagerly awaiting the next rc. Good work |
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both here and upstream! Is the proposed schedule on the wiki at |
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desktop.org still valid? A couple more RCs, and release in about a month |
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if all goes well? |
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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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