Ubuntu 10.10, "Upcoming X breakage"

[andol]

Tänkte att jag skulle vidarebefordra en liten varning till er som redan kör Maverick.

Summary for the impatient:
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A new X server is about to be uploaded which requires all the
drivers to be rebuilt. Be careful when upgrading in the next few
days.
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So far in Maverick X has been a relatively sedentary beast, not much
changed from Lucid. It's time for X to get a bit more interesting…

We're going to be merging the new 1.8 X server and associated drivers
from Debian over the next couple of days. This server has a new input
and video ABI, which means existing driver packages will break.

The server needs to be uploaded first so the new drivers build against
the correct ABI, which means that there will be a period where safe
upgrades will have held-back packages. The dependencies should ensure
that you won't accidentally get a non-working combination of Xserver and
drivers, but be careful if an upgrade wants to remove X packages.

There will be another X transition later in the Maverick cycle when we
switch to X server 1.9. I'll send out a similar notice then, too.

Happy testing!

[xeizo]

Jag har redan varit där ett tag, eftersom jag kör Xorg-edgers ppa, jag har haft inga problem alls, zero, null, nothing, men det beror nog mest på att jag kör Nvidia ...

[Hund]

Jag testade Xorg 1.8 för några månader sedan och det fungerar även bra för mig med NVIDIA.

[pun]

Jo jag kör också redan nya versionen Xorg 1.8.2 samt Mesa 7.9 från Xorg-edgers och det funkar prima med nVidia.

Nu betyder inte det att det inte behöver bli trassel när paketen ska ut för distribution via Mavericks arkiv...kan bli stökigt ändå...