On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:23:03PM -0500, dcla...@blastwave.org wrote: > > > > On February 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Here's the 1.17 release -- just a few patches since the last RC. > > > > Thanks to all for making this a really fun release to work on! > > > > > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.17.0.tar.gz > > SHA256: > > dde7ecf6a5591c22394e467f7a4c8c33e60eebfafcb0bfaf2f59c560002f4d86 > > xorg-server-1.17.0.tar.gz > > > Thank you very much for this. > > A question that I have, however, is how does one simply decide to > install this? Suppose, as a not entire too hypothetical case, a person > had a Debian based laptop and they simply wanted to build all of the > Xorg bits and have them reside in /opt/Xorg perhaps. Is there a web page > somewhere or a case where someone has done this sort of thing?
http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/testing-x-servers-from-git.html has been working for me for a couple of years now. Cheers, Peter > Part of the reason why I ask is that I do have Debian and Red Hat and > other things ( like Solaris ) and would really like to see a full build > from scratch actually up and running from the moment I login *with* the > added safety of not destroying whatever the vendor ships. Also, I have a > snazzy large touch screen monitor and don't really want to run a > Microsoft project just to get my monitor features to all work. > > Thank you for any helpful reply. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
