On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 03:17:44PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > OK, I'll do it. > > Speaking of Xorg, 7.6 seems to still be current. Other than > downloading/testing for LFS7, are there any other updates needed? > OK (to rpcbind).
For xorg, "needed" is probably too strong a word for updates. OTOH, it depends a lot on the hardware - for my *old* (R100/R200 AGP) radeons, I need newer Mesa, and nowadays (ati driver from September or thereabouts) I have to revert a more recent change in the ati driver. This is just a sign that hardly anyone still uses such old hardware :) - I plan to replace my main development machine soon. For *latest* ati and intel video chips, probably newer versions of the drivers, libdrm, and Mesa are needed. We don't cover nouveau, but I believe the nv driver has now been deprecated. The one time I built nouveau (on ppc/64), extra switches were needed in either libdrm or Mesa and I never felt I'd got it built correctly (although it worked). I shall also be trying xorg.conf.d/ (instead of xorg.conf, but potentially with much less detail) when I've sorted out some more details, and of course I'm already using evdev - for 7.6 you can perhaps keep the mouse and kbd drivers if you wish to. I'm actually surprised at how little has changed since I last looked at versions and stuck with the 1.9 server series - even evdev doesn't seem to have had a release. No doubt people more up-to-speed with what is going on in xorg will tear this post to ribbons, so: please feel free, guidance will be useful - particularly for newer xcb. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
