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Fedora is breaking X in rawhide
Hopefully I have your attention. We're working on a lot of stuff that's going into upstream X really soon. It's going to be quite disruptive, many drivers will fail to launch, etc. Good stuff, but disruptive. I want to rebase rawhide to git xserver really soon, before November if possible but definitely before December. I'll work to make sure most people can get _some_ X when that happens, but it's definitely going to hurt for about a month. I want to make sure everyone knows this is coming, and if anyone has suggestions for how to time this best and communicate all the caveats and workarounds, please, speak up now. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list (Log in to post comments)
Fedora is breaking X in rawhide Posted Nov 1, 2007 14:35 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] This is more fully explained in a later message ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/6... ): 1. Composite by default. This fixes up open source drivers and infrastructure to allow composited desktops to be enabled by default, especially with 3D apps and movie playing. Its mostly catching the open source DRI infrastructure up with the needs of the modern desktop. It will mostly be targeting Intel hardware in the initial release. 2. Smooth GUI booting. The aim is to get from grub to gdm login with only one mode set and make it all transition smoothly between applications... Again initially targeted at Intel hardware, we want to move to kernel side device drivers for graphics cards which should allows up only set the mode once on boot in an optimal configuration and avoid nasty flickering and stuff as the machine starts. Jumping to an Xorg 1.5 pre-release means we also need to deal with a new pci layer and input hotplug layers.
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