Hi all!


For those, who don't know:


Recently, we rewrote the X-target. It is in our latest CVS version.

The main intention for this was to get rid of a design mistake, that was
made. It forced us to write a complete GGI target for each different
functionality (use of an different extension (xf86dga), use
hw-acceleration of the X-server (Xlib), emulation of a virtual framebuffer
(X)). Thus, the maintainance of it was not that simply. And there are
still some users (with some more or less exotic system-configurations),
who have problems with getting GGI on X working.


The new X-target is likely a hybrid by merging X- and Xlib-targets
together. It makes better use of hw-acceleration of the X-server and it is
possible to make use of the X-extensions without writing a complete new
target such as the xf86dga one.

Further, it fixes some endianness bugs, the (old) Xlib target has.

The price for this is, that the new X-target is less tolerant to bugs
within the X-server.

The Xlib-target is currently not removed, but disabled in CVS. The
xf86dga-target will be removed as soon as the X-target can duplicate its
functionality.


We are heading to a libgii 0.8.2 and a libggi 2.0.2 bugfix releases.

The X-target of libggi 2.0.1 works fine you?
Then you surely expect, that it will work for you once you upgraded to
libggi 2.0.2.

The X-target of libggi 2.0.1 annoys you with getting problems?
Then you surely hope, that they are solved with libggi 2.0.2.

In order to avoid you to make bad experiences with libggi 2.0.2, we
interced for giving it a try.

Note, that you need the latest CVS version of libgii for the CVS version
of libggi, too.


CU,

Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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