Xorg 7.4 release plan

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 01:21 Wed 27 Feb     , Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:30:43PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > On 14:06 Tue 26 Feb     , Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > Input is not stable.  Since the last time I rebased X in fedora, I've
> > > had complaints about inability to switch keymaps, broken control-alt-foo
> > > combos, stuck axes on mice, keymap changes disappearing at runtime, etc.
> > > We never shipped 1.4 in fedora, but afaict XKB was fairly broken there
> > > too.  I'm really loathe to revert XKB to its 1.3 implementation, but in
> > > the absence of fixes, I'll do what needs doing.  Likewise input hotplug
> > > needs a sensible transition plan before I can really ship it.
> > 
> > Things work pretty well in 1.4.0.90 (1.4 was worse, iirc) as long as you 
> > pretend evdev doesn't exist.
> 
> Er? If you're only using one keyboard, there shouldn't be any difference
> (yes, master is much worse[0] than 1.4.0 is worse than 1.4.0.90) between
> kbd/mouse and evdev, if you ignore/remove all the insane remapping
> options that really don't belong in X.

Every computer I've had runs into random sporadic issues with crap just 
not working when I use evdev, random clicks, unstoppable pasting, etc. 
When I uninstall the evdev driver (and thus use mouse instead), it all 
works.

Thanks,
Donnie