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

Wed May 30 20:37:42 CEST 2012

'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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