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["Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Eric Sandall wrote:

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> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Andraž "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
> > Well today xorg 7.1 was released and we already have it in our
> > grimoire:
> >
> > scribe add xorg-modular from 
> > http://codex.sourcemage.org/testing/xorg-modular.tar.bz2
> >
> > For those that want to test it:
> > a) dispel xorg
> > b) cast xorg-server
> > c) cast various drivers and libs you might need from xorg-drivers and 
> > xorg-libs
> >   section
> 
> You'll want to also run `cleanse --prune doit` to have everything (or
> almost everything, I'm still fixing what I've found) build against the
> xorg-modular libraries (some of which have changed names/locations).
> Be sure to select switching from xorg to xorg-server/mesalib for the
> providers (usually option #3 ;)).
> 
> - -sandalle
> 

Having to change providers is annoying, it should just do it for you 
(default to what's installed for most cases, else prompt).  Also it really 
shouldn't prompt you every single time you cast the spell.

Jeremy