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In response to: Xorg 1.5.3 update

Chris [Visitor] — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:50:55 +0000

Thank you for the information concerning xorg in portage.

But what you said about the release 1.4.X beeing worst is only partly true. For me it was bad, but now it's even worse. I am one of those users having intel 845 graphics and i already struggled with 1.4.X to get a working configuration. Now i updated stable gentoo x86 to xorg 1.5 and there is still no up-to-date intel driver working with a stable kernel and stable xorg. With 1.4.X i could stick to kernel 2.25 and intel 1.6.5 (very old, but it worked). now intel driver 1.6.5 has been removed from portage. i tried recent stable kernels up to 2.6.28, intel drivers up to 2.6.3-r1 with xorg 1.5 and it always freezes my system whether using EXA, UXA or other xorg.conf tweaks. It's like hell! since 2 years i have not seen a recent intel driver working with stable Xorg and kernels. very frustrating. i hope there will be a solution before Xorg 1.6, because these are productive boxes ... i am using stable not for fun

In response to: Xorg 1.5.3 update

Newbie [Visitor] — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:30:46 +0000

Thanks a lot. But why x11-base/xorg-x11 isn't stable yet?

In response to: Xorg 1.5.3 update

Jakob Schiøtz [Visitor] — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:36:12 +0000

Great work! And thanks to whoever wrote the upgrade guide, now I will
go ahead and try it.

The upgrade guide is not listed under Upgrade Guides on the Gentoo
website, that is a pity.

/Jakob

In response to: Xorg 1.5.3 update

jon_norstog [Visitor] — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:06:48 +0000

Hey,

thank you for thinking of us Alpha users! Yeah, the current X-server is kind of dodgy. I didn't think we'd get any better, ever. There are still hundreds of Alpha users soldiering on ... good luck!

jn