From 529ef6f4f157d73c82f8be3f2001f7cce16b2d69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Klausmann Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:16:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Alpha Xorg news item detailing caveats (kernel versions). svn path=/; revision=13 --- .../2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++++++ .../2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt.asc | 7 ++++++ 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt create mode 100644 2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt.asc diff --git a/2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt b/2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..0a2ace7a2c970 --- /dev/null +++ b/2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Title: xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 kernel support +Author: Tobias Klausmann +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 diff --git a/2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt.asc b/2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt.asc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..ddbad878c5efd --- /dev/null +++ b/2009/07/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt.asc @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) + +iEYEABECAAYFAkpZ/bgACgkQA+4Doc5dVOjTkQCfT2RoSvPrRGGq+ODkQTkJtexC +EDEAoIiQthMRFsGrOBPSJEvsebbmosSg +=2Qpq +-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----