From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FwfJz-0004Ua-18 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:15:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k61DEwhx025928; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:14:58 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k61DEujV023913 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:14:57 GMT Received: from zidane.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-zidane.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.13]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k61DEtNq024374 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:14:55 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (blacksburg-bsr1-69-170-32-128.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.170.32.128]) by zidane.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id FRU07710 (AUTH spbecker); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:14:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44A67554.4080503@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:15:00 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060629) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-mips] modular X.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c9234e7f-007c-4abe-afcf-bc1dae1be6ad X-Archives-Hash: 6df78e630710fa34c13b6106f65a35e8 Hi folks, For any of you stable folks already running X out there, xorg-x11-7.1 went stable on mips yesterday. Please read the modular X migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml before going through with the upgrade, as it will save you a lot of headache. However, there are a couple of things to note in particular for mips with respect to USE_EXPAND. Please do no try to unset INPUT_DEVICES (in other words, do not set INPUT_DEVICES="" in your environment anywhere), or else you will run into a whooooooooole lot of broken deps. This is currently a limitation of the xorg-server ebuild, and there isn't anything we can do about it at this moment. As for VIDEO_CARDS, if you do not set it, you will get five drivers, fbdev, newport, impact, dummy, and v4l. Feel free to set this to whatever is appropriate for you. Speaking of impact, the X driver for impact on ip28 (Indigo2 Impact R10K) and ip30 (Octane) machines was committed upstream recently, and I squeezed it into the tree just a few days ago. I know a lot of people have been waiting for this, and now you won't have to use my ancient binpkg or roll your own patchset and ebuilds anymore. Note that we are bypassing normal QA procedures by stabilizing it so soon, however myself and others have been extensively testing this driver and feel confident that it is ready for end users at this time. However, please do report any issues. To my knowledge, this makes us the only distro that supports X on impact. Have fun... -Steve P.S. There are some example xorg.conf files in http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/Xstuff/ -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list