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NightMonkey
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 Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 4:47 am Post subject: Xorg-x11 7.2.0 upgrades WITHOUT A HITCH! :) |
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OK, I know that this probably belongs in "Gentoo Chat", and will probably be moved - no problem if that's the case.
I just updated two boxes from Xorg 7.1 to Xorg 7.2, and, so far, it has been smooth sailing! One box is a box with the proprietary NVIDIA Xorg display card driver, and the other is with i810 (i915). No xorg.conf updates necessary, though there are some new features with the Xorg i810 driver that I'll probably investigate later.
Big thanks to the Xorg folks, and to the Gentoo Devs which made the transition painless!
/me knocks on wood... 
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mark_alec
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Desktop Environments to Gentoo Chat.
Glad it all worked well for you, did for me too.
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vonr
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: |
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It seems like the modular structure of xorg is beginning to show its advantages here. Upgrading parts of X seems to be rather easy these days. I guess its far easier to manage several smaller packages instead of a single behemoth one. Also, we have dberkholz and his minions to thank for their great work.
| NightMonkey wrote: | | No xorg.conf updates necessary, though there are some new features with the Xorg i810 driver that I'll probably investigate later. |
Depending on your version of the i915 drm kernel module, have a look at the "Legacy3D" option if you're running anything compiz related. Compiz doesn't play nice with the i915tex driver yet. |
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swimmer
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Same here - especially the big thanks to the devs
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deno
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| It didn't work so well for me. First i noticed that beryl stopped working, and that was because dri didn't work. I had to unmask xf86-video-i810. Now I have dri working but still I am having problems with beryl. Apps windows won't refresh, when I type something in terminal there are no letters showing up... I have Intel GMA 950. |
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bLaXe
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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I did the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 on my laptop and desktop yesterday. Worked fine on the desktop (nvidia desktop effects / Beryl) - no problems at all.
On my laptop (open source radeon drivers / AIGLX / Beryl) I needed to disable the Beryl 'blur' effect since it caused the windows contents to be all screwed up. With that done it all works nicely again.
I was apprehensive at first since I only got Beryl work a few days ago, but it looks like the devs have done a fine job. Nice work! |
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asturm
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Upgrade on my laptop from 7.1 to 7.2 worked well too, no beryl there though. But for problems with beryl I wouldn't blame the xorg-devs. |
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rodoke
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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I upgraded without a hitch too!
*Takes look at X.org 7.2 changelog*
Were people expecting upgrade problems? It doesn't seem to be that much different to me, but then again, I don't use composting...
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deno
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Now I can also say upgraded without a hitch too!  The probem was/is in the xf86-video-i810 driver. |
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billk
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: failed dismally :( |
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I have a sony vaio that has a 1366x768 widescreen, and is used in an office with a 1280x1024 LCD, and also use it with a number of projectors (@1024x768 is the max I can do with this driver externally for some reason - prob the LCD height) in different rooms. the old i810 driver would run at whatever resolution from the choices I made, and stretched/squashed the ext/int screen as needed. Usually just hibernated or suspended to ram and restarted in the new location, chose the appropriate resolution and got on with itNot ideal but it worked.
The new driver however seems an only/or solution. It wont stretch/squash the image but turns off the output where the resolution doesn't match. Worse, if you start it up without the monitor plugged in, the ext output wont come on at al. Once up, in some cases choosing a resolution (xrandr) gives two blank screens - even if one/both match common modes between the two. On top of this, it appears to always want to use EDID and DDC information, even when xorg.conf says not to (the old driver did that as well - but maybe not so destructively ...).
Switching back to a terminal at least allows X to be killed/restarted, but sometimes that came up blank as well ...
On the plus side, being able to use heights greater than 768 on the ext adapter has me salivating ...
Next version please
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jesnow
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Me too -- two different boxes, one with an nvidia card, and it went smooth as silk. Thanks Thanks Thanks! |
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siimo
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bLaXe
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| siimo wrote: | I am holding off from upgrading because Xorg 7.2 breaks GUI Java apps.
Namely Azureus stopped working for me when I upgraded my SUSE box to 10.3 Alpha due to this bug so i don't wanna try on Gentoo! |
I don't have Azureus, so I can't verify that it will work - but I've have no problems running GUI Java apps on my systems after the upgrade. I'm a die-hard Eclipse user, and that's given me no troubles, the JME wireless toolkit still work fine, and I have not had any issues with any of the GUI apps I'm working on at the moment.
(IIRC Eclipse and Azureus both use SWT, so it seems logical to me that if one works the other should...) |
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deno
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Azureus (and other java apps i.e. eclipse) works fine here. |
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billk
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: Bug raised. |
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Raised bug #176985 on my issues plus mentioned this forum post so problems others have with this driver are visible.
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