On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:22:22AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >P.S. I'm starting to get a bit frustrated about the whole X.org 7.x >thing. With every release of it, something gets broken, and nothing >gets fixed.
I'll second that. IMO, 7.3 is a regression on 7.2 in both reliability
and functionality. The underlying problem seems to be that X.org are
no longer doing any integration testing: They produce several hundred
software packages but don't bother confirming that they actually work.
My breakage list is:
- 7.x introduced a whole pile of hard-wired modelines which can't be
disabled without patching the source code.
- xdm default directory was broken (later fixed)
- Files installed into /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm broken (maybe fixed by above)
- /usr/local/{share/examples,lib/X11}/xdm/Xresources was unparsable due
to a block of missing lines
- VTY/X11 switching on my ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M is dodgier (the display is
corrupted more frequently)
- system clock gets screwed up (it can lose several seconds during a VTY/X11
switch)
- DPMS display off/on can corrupt display
- The Xserver seems to call abort() when it should call exit()
So far, I haven't found anything that is actually an improvement over 7.2.
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