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  • From: "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Status of xorg-server in test grimoire
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:12:26 -0600

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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