[Mageia-dev] [RFC] x11-server-1.12

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 30/05/12 17:53 did gyre and gimble:
> On 30 May 2012 11:08, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Several of those have been ported to new x11-server-1.12 ABI in git
>> but haven't yet been released (eg: chips, rendition, tseng)
> 
> I've pushed those
> 
>> eg: we need to package a newer snapshot of nouveau
>>
>> Also I'ven't yet tried t orebuild several minor/obsolete input drivers.
> 
> I've pushed those too.
> 
> The following drivers failed to rebuild:
> 
> - virtualbox
> - x11-driver-input-synaptics
> - x11-driver-video-sisimedia
> - x11-driver-video-sisusb
> - x11-driver-video-xgi
> 
> synaptics needs rediffing some patches.
> The only other driver we miss is virtualbox which fails to compile:
> /usr/include/xorg/os.h:496:25: error: expected identifier or '('
> before '__extension__'
> 
> 
> Drakx installer works fine with new xserver (just need a little adaptation
> b/c a xkb file has disappeared)

FWIW, gdm can now be compiled with without the --without-systemd switch
to enable the automatic multi-seat stuff (as Xorg binary should not
accept a --seat argument). But this can probably wait until it's in main :)

Col

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