On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Randy McMurchy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Mostly to DJ, FYI for everyone else. Especially for Dan out there lurking!
<unlurk>Yes?</unlurk>. > What is the state of the current Xorg installation in BLFS? > > Is it close to what is going to be released in BLFS-6.5? > > Will there be significant changes that would cause incompatibilities > with the current Xorg installation? I didn't look at everything, but I think the 7.5 series was pretty solid. The two things I would absolutely suggest is getting xorg-server-1.7.5 and mesa-7.6.1. The release management for the xserver stable branch has been much better and there are a lot of very good fixes there. There was only one bug fix release for mesa-7.6, but I don't recall a lot of complaints, either. There's been a lot more upheaval in 7.7 and git. One thing to keep in mind is that since Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) has landed, there's a much tighter coupling between kernel/mesa/xserver/xdriver. For the drivers in Xorg-7.5, this probably only affects intel. For Xorg-7.6, it will affect radeon and probably nouveau, too. That might be something to discuss in the section about setting up DRI. There are CONFIG_DRM_*_KMS options that you'd want set for KMS, but also CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y is basically critical if you don't want to boot to a black screen and think everything's broken. One thing I notice in a driveby fashion: Newer libdrm offers to have the /dev/dri nodes handled by udev if you pass --enable-udev (or something like that). Then you can just use udev rules for setting the permissions instead of the current DRI setup where the xserver tells libdrm to do the mknod. I think the defaults in udev are the same anyway - group video, mode 660. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
