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I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset |
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wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the |
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support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X |
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wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual |
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great Gentoo HOWTOs helped me a lot |
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(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and apart from a few |
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moanings due to packages missing in package.keywords, things went fine. |
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But then the keyboard and mouse drivers were missing. esearch told me: |
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* x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse |
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Latest version available: 1.0.0 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 214 kB |
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Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ |
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Description: X.Org driver for mouse input devices |
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License: X11 |
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* x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard |
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Latest version available: 1.0.0 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 191 kB |
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Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ |
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Description: X.Org driver for keyboard input devices |
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License: X11 |
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Installing them fixed almost all remaining problems. But the package name puzzles me. Are these originally XF86 modules that x.org just decided to be compatible with, or is the name a copy-n paste error? Should I file a Bugzilla report? |
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The remaining problems concern DRM which isn't really essential (I get a |
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"libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)) and some fonts |
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that don't seem to be included any more and that I guess I just have to |
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reinstall. So far the modularized X looks promising, I'll do a |
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revdep-rebuild and some more testing tonight. Does anybody have an idea |
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about the DRM issue? |
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regards |
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Matthias |
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I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 |
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