[SM-Discuss] Status of xorg-server in test grimoire

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Thu Feb 26 22:12:26 EST 2009


Quoting "Eric Sandall" <eric at sandall.us>:

>
> Quoting George Sherwood <pilot at beernabeer.com>:
>
>> I keep hearing of problems with some of the xorg-server spells in test.
>> There was definitely a problem with libxfont and a
>> missing header file.  I reverted that, but I keep hearing grumbles that
>> there are more that are causing problems.
>>
>> If needed we should revert as needed to get xorg-server working reliably
>> in test.
>
> Currently the libxcb update is causing me major headaches. Most of my
> machines I ignore the update, but my work machine is halfway through
> and some of my important apps still aren't working (I can't even get
> tiff to compile). :/
>
> xf86-input-evdev 2.1.3 causes X to crash within a few seconds, but
> that's only on one machine, I haven't tested the others. I recall
> hearing that 2.y branches from X.org, if y is odd, are the 'devel'
> branch, so we may want to avoid those.
>

I can say that 2.1.3 works wonderfully on my laptop. No problems whatsoever.
I'm also going to note that I've read that evdev is eventually going  
to be the default for X to use. It might be wise to test it at least.

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