[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.0

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Apr  2, 2010 at 19:24:42 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:03:47AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > 
> > > Can you post the rest of the log? It should be picking up the
> > > InputClass settings from the installed xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf. See
> > > the INPUTCLASS section in xorg.conf(5). They're basically like the fdi
> > > stubs used with the hal backend.
> > 
> > Yeah, one possibility is that you have an existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
> > directory which will cause the X server to skip everything in
> > $(prefix)/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and thus miss the 10-evdev.conf file.
> 
> BTW, the first thing I did with 1.8.0 was:
> 
> -xorgconfddir = $(prefix)/etc/X11/$(XF86CONFIGDIR)
> +xorgconfddir = $(sysconfdir)/X11/$(XF86CONFIGDIR)
> 
> in config/Makefile.am
> 
And I'll be using /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ because using /etc for the
default "make my xserver work" snippets just seems wrong (and /usr
allows me to make sure they're in sync with the packages, not conflated
with configuration which is the admin's domain).

Cheers,
Julien