From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FO3Du-0003Bz-Mw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:42:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2S1fRMu030645; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:41:27 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2S1bFnj016257 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:37:16 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060328013713m1400sl5tce>; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:37:13 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] modular Xorg made it to ~x86 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:37:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1143503315.30049.22.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <1143503315.30049.22.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603272037.12134.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: c43e7693-9512-44f0-8f42-3a5f278e03c2 X-Archives-Hash: b93b51773fa4545d884768eff41445a3 On Monday 27 March 2006 18:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I noticed after a sync a few nights ago, that modular xorg is in ~x86. > I also noticed a few people here have installed a while ago already. > > so, can I just go ahead with it? I need a functional X on this box, but > I'm happy to put up with a few quirks. What are the gotcha's? > For me, over a small mix of hardware I had to manually emerge twm, setx, some odd fonts to get equal service from 7.0 as I had in previous 6.x.x X. Also... one small plus... on my personal HP laptop sporting at 9100igt video chips... dri is already present in 7.0. Before I had to install it via dri.sourceforge.net. Cheers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list