On 12/20/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm really not qualified to comment. I'm still using Xorg-6.9 and > still have never built the autotooled version of Xorg yet. I'm way > behind in the X world, but am I really that behind? Is there any > *real* functionality that has been added in the last while that > I'm doing without because I haven't moved to the autotooled version?
Assuming you don't care about OpenGL eyecandy, I can think of a couple things that are in Xorg-7.1 or are coming soon. evdev. I got a fancy mouse a little while ago. I first tried using it with the "mouse" driver with a million settings to try to get all the buttons working. Then I switched to evdev with zero configuration. Everything works exactly as advertised. Even the thumb side buttons in a web browser. Slick. Randr-1.2. Keith Packard has been hammering away on this. It will basically eliminate all configuration on screens, including multiple monitor setups. Essentially, you plug in a monitor and things go on the fly. I think this is Xorg-7.3 timeframe. Input hotplug. No need to kill the xserver and reconfigure when adding input devices. This is going in for Xorg-7.2. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
