[rock-devel] X.Org X11R7.1 update status

[Stefan Fiedler]

Am Donnerstag, 3. August 2006 13:05 schrieb Thomas "fake" Jakobi:
> hi stefan, list,
>
> Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> > I've found only one showstopper so far: xorgcfg and X -configure don't
> > work. On my machine and in qemu, both only leave a black screen and don't
> > produce any xorg.conf file. At least I could still reboot with
> > Ctrl-Alt-Del... I probably don't have to tell you that this sucks big
> > time :/
>
> the behaviour is the same as with Xorg 6.9, so no new bugs introduced ;)

This is not the already known qemu quirk, but a bug new to the X11R7 
release... In X11R6.9 it worked for me to use X -configure for creating an 
xorg.conf.new file in /root. (The qemu quirk was that the screen stayed black 
when doing this, but the xorg.conf.new file was still created and usable 
after a reboot of qemu.) In X11R7.1 this does not work, neither on a real 
machine, nor in qemu; no xorg.conf.new file is created... the only 
configuration program that still works is (the text-based) xorgconfig. :(

>
> i see two other issues: the whole windowmanager/session selection is not
> yet ported over from the x.org package. that's pretty much what keeps me
> from applying the patches, if i run startx in my test build, i get an
> xterm on black background.
>

Have you tried 
https://www.rocklinux.net/submaster/index.websplb?mode=patch&uid=2006073117561123840 ? 
It should apply all config bits and pieces from the xorg package to the xorg 
repository.

> the other issue is a little more frustrating: the space needed increased
> to 2 cds, because of the overhead of all the new packages, we're 11Mb
> over 650 Mb. Suggestions?

Some packages I wouldn't mind removing:
kdeartwork (18M)
kdegames (9.6M)
xorg-docs (5.4M)
...

>
> Maybe if we un-core some of the new fonts?
>
> > Btw. the new location of Xorg.*.log files is /usr/X11R7/var/log/.
>
> this has to change back to /var/log!
>
>
> stefan, if you have the time, please take a look at the first issue and
> the /var/log thing, if not, please tell me, so i can. We will take care
> of the second issue later.

The first issue is already solved afaics, please have a look at the changed 
log file location; the prefix in package/xorg/xorg_config.sh is probably 
wrong.

Greetings,
	Stefan Fiedler

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