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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 14, 2006 22:35 UTC (Mon) by palapa (subscriber, #612)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by drag
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

debian unstable is still using xorg 7.0.22 (same as testing)

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X.org in Debian

Posted Aug 17, 2006 8:35 UTC (Thu) by Wummel (subscriber, #7591) [Link]

X.org 7.1 packages will first (and partially have already) enter the experimental branch. Debian releases for a roughly a dozen different architectures, and porting the X.org beast to these is not easy. If you are interested in the progress of this effort, you can join the debian-x mailing list.

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 17, 2006 9:50 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

GIven that Debian (hopes to) get freezed soon, I see some reason not to change X version.
Anyway, I don't it as a "we won't break proprietary modules", as fglrx is already severely broken on 2.6.17 linux kernel (don't know for 2.6.16 which is currently in etch)