Hi! See below. For a little more background: http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2009/06/28/index.html#e2009-06-28T13_54_50.txt Also note the glibc part of the same post. Maybe that'd warrant a news item, too? What do the toolchain guys think?
As for my news item, what I'm not entirely sure about are the Displa-If- headers (What I'm aiming for is to reach people who have installed *either* xorg-x11 (and thus -server) or just xorg-server on any alpha profile) Also, the last paragraph might reek a bit of politics, but I'm quite comfortable with placing pressure on the Xorg guys via users. Title: xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 kernel support Author: Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-x11 Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha Recent versions of xorg's X11 require kernel support to access PCI and AGP graphic cards. This support has only recently been added to the Linux kernel (vanilla-sources-2.6.30 and gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5). Thus, you will need to run a recent enough kernel to use recent versions of X11 on an alpha. If you only start programs on your alpha, but the display is on another machine, no upgrade is necessary. Furthermore, not all graphics card drivers have been updated to work with the newer X server API. One example is the glint driver used for Permedia cards. The upstream developers have been informed about this, but nothing has happened so far. -- We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again.
