xorg 6.8.0

[Collins Richey]

Sorry, I lost Llllama's query, so this is a new thread.

Gentoo came through with an ebuild for the new xorg release, so I put
it up. After a few adjustments, it works well with all the usual
suspects - firefox, sylpheed, mplayer, acroread, konqueror,
miscellaneous gtk apps.

Just a note: the new release is really picky about xorg.conf
parameters. I had the following lines in my conf from xfree86 days.
Worked fine on xorg < 6.8.0.

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "Keyboard"
#  now it must be Driver       "keyboard" (lower case)
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
# now must omit Protocol parameter and use default; fails if Protocol is used
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
# now I have XkbRules commented out; haven't tried this one
EndSection

The RSS size of xorg has increased by ~= 2K; no change in cpu utilization.

I haven't (and probably won't try) the transparency crap, but early
adaptors on gentoo say that it works poorly.

Enjoy

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