xorg 6.8.0

[Net Llama!]

On 09/10/2004 05:52 AM, Collins Richey wrote:

> 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

Those were required in 6.7 as well, at least on FC2.

> 
> 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.

Interesting.  Everyone that i've read about trying it says when it 
works, it works really well.

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