Xorg-X11 6.8.1.901

Lokheed · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:01 am Post subject: Xorg-X11 6.8.1.901

Anyone emerge it yet, thoughts, comments, etc. ?

I didnt find any posts about it so I thought I would make one. Just finished emerging it (under 2 hours which really really impresses me) and it is really responsive. Notice improvement in mouse and just general useage...but it could be the placebo affect. Anyway just wanted to see what everyone else thought as I was a little shaky in doing it, but happy I did

kiel.wells · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

I have it emerged, and other than all my fonts look like Apple ones (which isn't bad, by any means), I can't tell the difference.

It works though, so that's cool.

rOss^64 · n00b Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 32

John5788 · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:38 am Post subject:

any cool new features?
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Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

I haven't noticed any difference so far.

IvanHoe · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658

Since I added bindist to my USE flags and re-emerged freetype my fonts have never looked better. However, I don't know if I can attribute any of it to the new xorg.

Lokheed · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:42 am Post subject:

I had freetype 2.1.9-r1 before I emerged the new Xorg..no problems then and no problems now...

Dont have bindist in my USE flags either, lucked out I guess. I dont notice anything new either.

John5788, I think mostly what Xorg has done is update the internal version of freetype (2.1.

and change the location of a lot of the X server. Most things finally point to Xorg so they are weening away from the xfree directory. Alot of other changes in directory structure but other then that, I dont think you can really expect much...but its something to compile

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

Emerged it yesterday and I can't tell the difference.

Ateo · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:28 am Post subject:

Haven't noticed any difference yet....

Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

I am fighting with my fonts for a long time now and they never looked perfect....anyway, xorg has some flags I am not clear about.

These flags are: font-server, bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts, type1-fonts.

What of these flags do I need and what do they do?
Do they just emerge more fonts of these different types?
And what about the font-server flag?

IvanHoe · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658

jinxos · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:55 am Post subject: ATI troubles...

I upgraded from Xorg 6.8.0-r3 to 6.8.1.901 last night and didn't notice much difference (my fonts where ok at least

) except the fact that running GLXgears now freezes my box... at least I can Sync, Unmount, reBoot using SysRq without causing any damage...

Same config with 6.8.0-r3 works like a charm... ~1250fps on my Radeon 7500

J.

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

OT: How do I enable SysRq key on 2.6.9/2.6.10? I don't see it under kernel hacking, is there somekind of patch or what? Grepping .config doesn't show it either...

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Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

Hm, although I merged it with "insecure-drivers" in USE, dri doesn't run with my s3 savage

Cossins · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject:

I got the dreaded "duplicate symbols" error, which I could only get rid of using the "dlloader" USE-flag*. This left the binary NVIDIA-driver unusable (loads of symbol errors if I try to load them), so I'm stuck with nv. Which has really crappy 2D-performance due to absence of RenderAccel, and no 3D at all.

Is there a way to get rid of the "duplicate symbol" error without using dlloader?

- Simon

* ) Disables the built-in ELF-loader from XFree86 (for some reason, some really imbecilic idiot decided that XFree was going to have it's own shared object loader, instead of just using glibc's dload-API in ld-linux.so.2), and enables an experimental loader that uses ld-linux.so.2.
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ColeSlaw · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject:

asb002 · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

OpenGL apps (like ut2004, America's Army, etc) no longer freeze up my system with the new Xorg version (I use the xorg-x11 OpenGL interface with my Radeon 8500) so I like it very much! Other than that, I haven't noticed a difference.

Lokheed · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

I get better score in GLXGEARS now. The default size I still get the same FPS, but even a slightest decrease and it shoots up much higher then before...

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

One thing I noticed is that switching from a VT to X is much faster now.

Speaking of Xorg though, to those of you who use a display manager I would just like to say that xdm can be configured to look really nice.

younker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 280 Location: China

Emerged yesterday, but when built other applications that needs libXft.la failed, It complains that can't /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.la,

how to solve this?

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Roguelazer · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:01 am Post subject:

Shazam · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:19 am Post subject:

my big question concerning the new version, does it work with the ati-drivers 3.14.6 ?

or lets put it another way, do you get 3D hardware acceleration for Radeon Cards > 9200 ?

(like the 9600 i got)