XOrg 6.7.99.x / 6.8.0

ck42 · l33t Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 789

saw in #xorg that the next target date is Wednesday, the 8th.....though, this was not guaranteed, just the next hopeful date.

MADcow · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:05 am Post subject:

miqorz: is your icon Till from Rammstein? i love German industrial

John5788: thanks for the info. will try.

John5788 · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:

shredz · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject:

Sastraxi · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 258

Anyone have this working with fglrx? It always bombs out big-time on me, complaining about missing symbols in fglrx_drv.o.

I saw the rage3d thread, but adding:

GweeDo767 · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

With all this talk I decided to write up a guide for all this:
http://www.grebowiec.net/archives/2004/09/xorg_68rc4_a_si.html

It should walk you through all that you need.

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

After going through with my x-org r4 working I am experiencing similar problems to others and am re-emerging both firefox and xorg, and noticed with x-org I was getting this:-

Unknown Type 1 weight "ExtraBold"
Couldn't determine weight for boecklin.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Heavy"
Couldn't determine weight for blippo.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Plain"
Couldn't determine weight for spooky.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "SemiBold"
Couldn't determine weight for coronet.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Plain"
Couldn't determine weight for dos_____.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "SemiBold"
Couldn't determine weight for erasblkb.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "normal"
Couldn't determine weight for capri.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "normal"
Couldn't determine weight for linotext.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Heavy"
Couldn't determine weight for erasltra.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Plain"
Couldn't determine weight for mazama.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "normal"
Couldn't determine weight for old_town.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Plain"
Couldn't determine weight for shf_____.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "normal"
Couldn't determine weight for postanti.pfb
Unknown Type 1 weight "Heavy"
Couldn't determine weight for cooprblk.pfb [ ok ] * Generating fonts.dir files......

I know there are changes, but this is just silly.

P.S. Teach me to be greedy for new graphics drivers LOL

GweeDo767 · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

superjaded: thanks for the tips. I have updated the guide. Let me know if there is anything else you see.

JoeInAZ · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Tolleson, AZ

** EDIT: Ok, apparently I missed page 16 which posts the modified xcompmgr which remembers the settings and provides a default transparency level. You can ignore most of my post. **

Following the information in this thread, I have compositing working. It's beautiful.

Is there any way for transset to remember the transparent settings for a window? I have my Gaim window set to .3, which works great. Then I was disconnected, and when I reconnected, it's no longer transparent, and I have to manually set it again. Gaim is never actually closed.

I'm assuming that this isn't currently possible (I'm also assuming that this would be a function of the window manager), but I would like to hear otherwise.

Thanks!

joe

ghostn9e · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:07 am Post subject:

i didnt see it posted in this thread yet, but this helps w/ the drop shadows, looks much better now

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=219858

mdowney · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:17 am Post subject: Re: Guide Updated

GweeDo767 · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 13

thrasher7 already told me to and it is already up

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg68RC4

yardbird · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 689 Location: nl.leiden

Xorg 6.8.0 is out:

http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/src/

Congratulations to all devs!

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firephoto · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:34 am Post subject:

hmmm must emerge sync... glad I stayed up late playing a game instead of sleeping.

arenaweb · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:43 am Post subject:

there is no ebuild yet

Skandal · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 12

I'm having problems running apps that link to libXp.so.6 like

acroread
matlab

Apparently libXp.so.6 does not exist on my system since I installed xorg-x11-6.7.99.904. I think the same applications did work with 903.

Does anyone know of a workaround?

steelrose · Apprentice Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 245 Location: Cyprus

i think you must remerge xorg-904 using xprint flag before

USE="xprint" emerge -p xorg-x11
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mdowney · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject:

ian! · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject:

Right. Xorg 6.8.0 is out.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63222

Please don't create any bugreports about the Xorg-6.8.0 release. -- We are aware of that.

Please keep our rsync etiquette in mind: GF15: Rsync etiquette OR How often should I sync?

An ebuild will be released soon. Please give our devs a few hours to test their ebuilds.

Thanks.

--ian!
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andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

Actually it looks like it's not out just yet... the site linked to by Slashdot has been changed to a message that tells us to wait for an announcement later today.

I hope that doesn't stop the devs from working on an ebuild though ;-)

Andrew

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

eagerly awaiting ebuild :-)

thankyou to all the dev's :-)

PickledFetus · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 22

Maybe this is a stupid question, but once the ebuild is released, do I just have to do an "emerge xorg" to install this new version? Will I have to get new versions of my nvidia drivers or change anything in Xorg.conf or anything? I'd love to try out the new transparency and shadows and whatnot, but I don't want to break my machine...

DarwinianCoeus · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject: ...

for the record, ill be sitting here until 6.8 is built
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