Dan's commit to Xorg got me to looking around a bit. I still want to update KDE, but I'm not sure if the result is worth the effort.
We have kde-3.5.2 in the book and the current is 3.5.5. The point releases are bug fixes and minor feature updates. A summary of the fixes is at http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.{3,4,5}.php (Note 3 urls above) There is still no KDE4 schedule, but a developer snapshot, KDE 3.80.2 was released Oct 31. I'd like to know other opinions about pursuing a KDE update right now. --------------- In any case, I started looking at the KDE prereqs at http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.5.php and I noticed some things I haven't seen before with regard to X. There are Recommended and Optional X extensions: Render - Recommended Fixes - Optional Composite - Optional Damage - Optional DPMS - Recommended Video - Optional When I looked at my Xorg7 setup, I didn't see Composite or Damage. In addition my log said that there was a problem with ACPI. I was able to fix the ACPI issue by getting acpid from sourceforge. The build was make && make install, but I had to fix up the code a bit as warnings were treated as errors. I was also able to enable both the Composite and Damage extensions by adding the following to xorg.conf: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection My question is whether we should put either (or both) of these issues in the book? The xorg.conf sections could be placed into "Additional X Window System Configuration". The acpid issue could be mentioned in the same section or a new (rather small) page put in the book. Thoughts? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
