I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual great Gentoo HOWTOs helped me a lot (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and apart from a few moanings due to packages missing in package.keywords, things went fine. But then the keyboard and mouse drivers were missing. esearch told me:
* x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
Latest version available: 1.0.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 214 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: X.Org driver for mouse input devices
License: X11
* x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
Latest version available: 1.0.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 191 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: X.Org driver for keyboard input devices
License: X11
Installing them fixed almost all remaining problems. But the package name
puzzles me. Are these originally XF86 modules that x.org just decided to be
compatible with, or is the name a copy-n paste error? Should I file a Bugzilla
report?
The remaining problems concern DRM which isn't really essential (I get a
"libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)) and some fonts
that don't seem to be included any more and that I guess I just have to
reinstall. So far the modularized X looks promising, I'll do a
revdep-rebuild and some more testing tonight. Does anybody have an idea
about the DRM issue?
regards
Matthias
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