Xorg-server 1.7 in ~arch
It's out there now, available in ~arch. Like always, you'll need to rebuild your drivers, just look-up the command given by the server's ebuild (use eread if you've lost the output).
This release took a little longer to unmask not because of the server (it's a nice change). It's because a lot of headers were moved around from library packages to proto packages and vice versa. The ABI of X libraries has not changed, but I'm pretty sure there will be compile errors in some packages.
If that's the case, please file bugs in bugzilla.
Thanks for reading this public service announcement.
Edit: There will not be a package.keywords list for stable users. Xorg-server 1.7 is intended for ~arch users only, at this moment. And all bugs from stable users will be closed INVALID. We will start creating lists when we want to stabilize it.
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6 comments
just a note:
xorg-x11 meta package should be bumped to 7.5 too.
There are probably a lot of people who put the xorg-server in package.keywords because they needed/wanted feature X/Y or because it fixed some bug for them (it did for me). So now I get a release that possibly breaks build in unstable?
I just thought I'd throw this in as it has irritated me numerous times. Unstable seems to mean different things with different herds and this can be a bit cumbersome to the user
Having said that, thanks for doing all the work - I'll surely test it out soon :)
The newest x11 drivers DO work...
Am I dreaming or this new xorg is much faster than the 1.6?
Rémi: if you're using the Intel driver, there's a pretty good chance it'll be much faster. 2.9 will even be a little faster when we stabilize it :)
10/26/09 09:50:42 pm, 