Donnie Berkholz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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
