On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:54 PM, DJ Lucas<d...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Guy > >> However, the patch DJ's referring to is in the xserver-1.6 series if >> you decide to go that route. I think most of the distros are using the >> 1.6 server on their newer releases. > > So, the question is "Should that be the official recommendation for BLFS?" > Basically, use hal, and then do an xorg.conf without the input device > sections for 1.5.3 (or use the patch if you want to have input sections > for some reason)...1.6 doesn't matter how you configure it. As it is, my > 7 button mouse and usb keyboard work with no additional configuration on > 1.5.3, so I'm content, and confident with 1.5.3 +patch (using an > 'official' distribution of X gives the nice fuzzy) but maybe 1.6 is > better. I've seen many mention of the distro's playing nicely with 1.6. > We also need the 1.6 server to use the new Intel DRI2(???) stuff right, > along with new Mesa, new LibDRM, and new drivers? Any other gotchas? I > haven't kept tabs on X development lately. Too much magic voodoo stuff > over there. ;-)
The patch should probably just be applied when using 1.5.3. It fixes a bug when HAL support is not built in, but it doesn't hurt if you do build HAL support. For any of the newer xservers, you pretty much have either xorg.conf devices with AllowEmptyInput false or you use HAL and make any configuration in the fdi. If you try to mix them, you can easily end up with no input devices or duplicate input devices. 1.6 has a couple bug fixes to make these scenarios more robust, but the basic situation is essentially the same. I personally have been using the HAL system for the pure convenience of hotplugging and just dealt with having to migrate configuration to fdi files. I hope this situation changes in the future (it's one of my pet projects), but that's how it's going now. The 1.6 series does have some nice new features like DRI2 and input properties, but I just recall that people have had a better experience than with 1.5. Don't know if it's worth the effort to jump around releases, but it's usually feasible to update the server with few other parts. I wish I could give a more solid recommendation, but it might take someone playing around a bit. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
