More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release [LWN.net]

More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Posted Dec 22, 2005 23:02 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)
Parent article: More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Just out of curiosity, will /usr/X11R6 be renamed /usr/X11R7 now, too, or will the old name stick?

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Posted Dec 22, 2005 23:09 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (5 responses)

My understanding is that /usr/X11 goes away with the new layout. Everything will be in the "standard" path of /sbin,/usr/sbin,/bin, and /usr/bin

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Posted Dec 23, 2005 0:07 UTC (Fri) by AndyBurns (guest, #27521) [Link] (2 responses)

That's certainly how it goes with FC5/rawhide, to force fglrx binary drivers to install I had to make soft links for the old X11R6 directories, but I've switched back to the xorg radeon drivers now :-)

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Posted Dec 23, 2005 6:58 UTC (Fri) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] (1 responses)

Are you using r300 or r400 based card? Has vanilla Xorg 7.0 now got the r300 DRI/3D features enabled? It's been under heavy work recently, and it'd be nice to know if now 9500-X800 card would possibly have some (not great, but still something and in open source) 3D support out of the box. The "r300" driver works also for r4xx-based cards, as they are so similar to each other.

At some point I got the impression that the 3D features might be disabled by default because of some stability problems with specific 9800 cards. Anyway, the modularity of of Xorg 7.0 makes it easier of course for distributors and others to provide 3D-enabled ati drivers.

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Posted Dec 23, 2005 12:20 UTC (Fri) by AndyBurns (guest, #27521) [Link]

> Are you using r300 or r400 based card?

PCIe X550 which is RV370

> Has vanilla Xorg 7.0 now got the r300 DRI/3D features enabled?

Not for my card, there is a message in Xorg.0.log saying it has disabled it, it think it is conditional on the card.

I'm more interested in 2D + video overlay which works ok since RC3

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Posted Dec 23, 2005 4:08 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

To be more precise, everything (save for the config in /etc) should be
under /usr, since X wouldn't be considered critical enough to put it on
the root volume if /usr is a separate volume.

So, /usr/bin, /usr/${libdir} (lib/lib64/lib32, whatever). I'm still
running an earlier snapshot (on Gentoo for amd64), but still have
a /usr/lib64/X11 (which will likely go away), but /usr/X11R6 is a symlink
back to /usr, /usr/bin/X11 is a symlink back to /usr/bin, etc. On
the /etc side, everything is currently still in /etc/X11, which will
probably remain, just to keep all X related configuration stuff together.

Duncan

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Posted Dec 23, 2005 17:38 UTC (Fri) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

I certainly hope /usr/X11 and kin go away. It seemed awkward that X11 really is an application, but had its own directory layout outside of the normal system. An important application, but an application nonetheless.