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

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Mon Mar 2 02:07:02 EST 2009


On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:15:26 +0100 (CET)
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie at codemages.net> wrote:

> devel-xorg-modular branch of grimoire.git now has
> xorg-server 1.6
> 
> And some other things. The one thing needed also is randrproto but
> only the proto. Everything else randr related like xrandr and
> libxrandr should be taken from master branch.
> 
> Now go out and have fun testing this. If I don't receive any gatting
> reports by next weekend I'll merge this into master and be done with
> it.
> 
> Now for future. I propose we follow the X release cycle for X and
> anything in between to be put into devel-xorg-modular and pulled into
> test only after a month of testing by atleast one person. This means
> using it like you normally would. This means things like libs and
> xorg-server primarily. For drivers there is no such issue as they can
> be easily reverted if there are any issues.
> 
> 
> X release cycle is a release every 6 months.
> 
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases
> 
> If this is to hard for some to follow I'll take over maintenance of
> all the modular X spells and will do it this way. And revert anything
> in-between anyone else updates in these sections.
> 
> What would this mean. It would mean I would run update cycles once per
> month for between releases updates. At which time I would pull in the
> last months updates to master and update the new stuff in
> devel-xorg-modular.

The only issue I had was xorg-server not building until I recast
randrproto. I do not have a copy of the error from xorg-server.

So I didn't have a keyboard when I loaded X after the update. I had to
remove my kbd device entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf *and* add the
following tag:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AllowEmptyInput"       "false"
EndSection 

Is this normal having to *add* config options to get something as
simple as a keyboard to work? My synaptics works, but I left the
synaptics entry in the config.

What's with X.org making perfectly working
setups break *every* release?

-sandalle

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