[gentoo-dev] Re: New eselect news item for X11 on alphas

[Christian Faulhammer]

Hi,

Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o>:
> As for my news item, what I'm not entirely sure about are the
> Displa-If- headers (What I'm aiming for is to reach people who have
> installed *either* xorg-x11 (and thus -server) or just xorg-server on
> any alpha profile) Also, the last paragraph might reek a bit of
> politics, but I'm quite comfortable with placing pressure on the Xorg
> guys via users.

 According to GLEP 42:
"The algorithm used to determine whether a news item is 'relevant' is as
follows:

 * For each Display-If- header type which occurs at least once:
  ** The news item is not relevant if none of the headers of this type
  are successfully matched.
 * Otherwise the news item is relevant."

 I understand it like a OR match for every type, which are linked by
AND.

> Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha

 There is also Display-If-Keyword (for the sake of completeness
 in this post).

> Recent versions of xorg's X11 require kernel support to access PCI and
> AGP graphic cards. This support has only recently been added to the
> Linux kernel (vanilla-sources-2.6.30 and gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5).

 Add sys-kernel/ categories, please.

> Furthermore, not all graphics card drivers have been updated to work
> with the newer X server API. One example is the glint driver used for
> Permedia cards. The upstream developers have been informed about this,
> but nothing has happened so far.
 
 "...but no fixes are available yet, please see <upstream bug>."

 Maybe you could mention the 1.5 upgrade guide again.

V-Li

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