From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3L9hnYW014931 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:43:49 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOYDX-0003d9-Uz for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:43:28 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DOY95-0000BD-UC for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:38:52 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.66.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:38:51 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:38:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Some new xorg ebuilds Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:42:10 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <4264BAB1.5050804@gentoo.org> <4264CC34.8010704@gentoo.org> <1113912662.13564.5.camel@sponge.fungus> <42669E8E.8000700@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9474a158-33fc-49c0-ba2a-1db44e525336 X-Archives-Hash: 356e477d0767a5e87fa2487669ae9c2f Donnie Berkholz posted <42669E8E.8000700@gentoo.org>, excerpted below, on Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:25:18 -0700: > Duncan wrote: >> Will xorg 6.9 (monolithic) and 7.0 (modularized) exist at the same >> time? > > I haven't decided yet. Well-justified arguments one way or the other > would be useful. > > Whatever upstream's versioning scheme is will be followed here. I expect > that versions will be independent of the "xorg" release number, but I'm > not positive. > >> Finally, are all the Gentoo local system location changes now complete? > > Gentoo-local changes should be done, although upstream may be changing > /usr/lib/modules to /usr/lib/xserver/modules or something along those > lines, and perhaps a few similar changes. > >> Also, one more question, local xorg configuration related. > > http://www.botchco.com/alex/dualhead/ might help. It's by the guy who > does much of the dual-head work in Xorg. Thanks. From the (previous) link, it appears upstream versions will indeed be independent, definitely so for hardware driver modules, anyway, since the various vendors (at least those open sourcing) will be able to directly control nearly all aspects of those modules, including versioning, and at least some of them will obviously have their own versioning schemes to follow. That documentation provides as strong a clue as I've yet seen that ATI may yet open up newer drivers again. The mentions of new/experimental Radeon 9800+ DRI support were interesting as well. I had a couple paragraphs written on this but then decided the dev list wasn't the place to be spamming it, so I'll just comment that this gives me new reasons for hope. Thanks for the dualhead link as well. It's in my bookmarks now, for sure! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list