Hi! On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org>: > > > Revision: 2 > > This is only needed for an in-repo revision...so please leave it at 1. > > > but but no fixes are available yet, please see > > But but....
Imagine a trembling lower lip with that :) Fixed both, new version below. Thanks again. Title: xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 kernel support Author: Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha Recent versions of xorg's X11 require kernel support to access PCI and AGP graphic cards. This support has only recently been added to the Linux kernel (sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.30 and sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5). Thus, you will need to run a recent enough kernel to use recent versions of X11 on an alpha. If you only start programs on your alpha, but the display is on another machine, no upgrade is necessary. Furthermore, not all graphics card drivers have been updated to work with the newer X server API. One example is the glint driver used for Permedia cards. The upstream developers have been informed about this, but no fixes are available yet, please see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546 For a general guide to upgrading to Xorg 1.5, see the Gentoo upgrade guide: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
