On 11/27/2011 04:25 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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 I don't exactly consider myself "up-to-speed," but I did have a working list for a 4th 7.6 update as of about a month ago. I'll be back at it in a few moments. Not too much has changed, a handful of updates in total, couldn't have been more than maybe 20 individual package updates. It is pretty much going to be go with the latest and greatest in the conglomeration directories, and then there is Mesa. As far as any major changes, I had xcb and xcb-utils working with Python3, but I figure we'll be best to stick with Python2 until upstream wants the newer version. Nothing needed or wanted Python3 as of last month until I made it want Python3.
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