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FRLinux [Visitor] — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:40:18 +0000

Yes, had to use twinview to get everything running again with KDE 4. Note that xinerama still works as expected with XFCE (which I also use).

In response to: Help needed to stabilize xorg-server 1.5.3 and friends

Claudinei [Visitor] — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:54:54 +0000

Hi,

Do somebody known anything about broken xinerama support with xorg-server 1.5.3-r2?

I was using a xinerama setup since the last 2 years but after I've upgraded my xorg-server from 1.3.0.0-r6 to 1.5.3-r2 I can not start X with 2 screens setup anymore, but only with the primary one.

I've also noticed that if I do try to start X only on my second vga board which is a PCI one, it just hangs on a black screen.
To be able to use the second card instead of the first (an AGP one) I've to change VGA's priority at BIOS and after that, I will not be able to start X on the AGP one, just the PCI.

I think it's not a specific gentoo bug as long as a friend of mine experienced the same problem on an Ubuntu with xorg-server 1.5.3 (right now he's using a dual head board with TwinView).

Is there any specific place I may file a bug?

By the way, anything else seems to work fine until now.

Cheers

In response to: Help needed to stabilize xorg-server 1.5.3 and friends

Mike Lee [Visitor] — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:22:27 +0000

Thanks for your comment. Anyway I'm allready start the upgrade.

In response to: Help needed to stabilize xorg-server 1.5.3 and friends

R CARDONA [Member] — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:39:18 +0000

The KDE herd decided to force Xorg 1.5.3 because of the numerous kwin bugs when running on Xorg 1.3.

I strongly support their decision because it's doing everyone a big favor.

I'll take my share of responsibility for keeping 1.3 in stable for waaay too long.

Cheers

In response to: Help needed to stabilize xorg-server 1.5.3 and friends

Mike Lee [Visitor] — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:28:47 +0000

"Not to please anyone - but because of KDE4 we already put >=xorg-server-1.5.3"

Could you clarify, why such dependency was added to the main tree? I see, that you need a lot of users to test Xorg-7.4, but let I choose myself which unstable software I want to use.

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FRLinux [Visitor] — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:34:50 +0000

You might want to post in more official places as well, not only this blog (that i kind of found by sheer luck :)

Anyway, thanks for the heads up, upgrading my stuff now, i have posted there as well to relay: http://frl1nux.blogspot.com/2009/03/gentoo-needs-you.html

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Dirk Olmes [Visitor] — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:20:49 +0000

I gave the Xorg update a try yesterday ... I have to say that this was very easy. And since I have a very basic Xorg config, I didn't even have to change anything in there.

x11-driver-ati works flawlessly, too ...

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Jeff Jibson [Visitor] — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:12:44 +0000

An upgrade guide or better a good HOWTO for using xorg-server with HAL and evdev would be helpful. It seems very confusing on how modify keyboard input. Currently, I use xmodmap. When trying to find how to do stuff the new way, you find half a dozen different ways, but none tell you which version of xorg-server they apply to. This was the only thing keeping me from switching to ~x86/~amd64.