The X11R6.7 DDX New World Order

[Ely Levy]

Lets say xizzle would work amazgly with the old DDX and the stuff
how would that contribute anything to xserver?
wouldn't it make more sense to try to move Xorg to the new dix or ddx or
whichever one?:)

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:

> Hey dudes,
> I'm sorry if you're on xserver-commit and still reeling. I'm aware it's
> much suckage.
>
> As you've no doubt seen, I just imported the X11R6.7 DDX - Xizzle is no
> longer. Instead, there's now hw/xorg, complete with --enable-xorgserver.
> And it links - far better than Xizzle's effort when I first imported it.
>
> But it hangs. Dead. And kills my machine. It's either in
> RADEONAccelInit, or RADEONDGAInit. (Maybe it's InitAccel and InitDGA -
> I'm too tired to care.) If anyone wants to track this down to make the
> Xorg binary useful, please feel free.
>
> Right now, tho, you cannot use --enable-kdriveserver and
> --enable-xorgserver at the same time. xorg requires Xi and XKB (and has
> its own logging stuff), and kdrive doesn't have any of those. So, your
> DIX is not universal: xorg and kdrive are mutually exclusive, in terms
> of the build environment.
>
> Please, consider this a call for testers and debuggers. I have a
> 1500-word essay due in a few hours I haven't even started yet, because
> I've been debugging, watching my machine hang, committing to CVS over a
> modem, etc, etc.
>
> After I've handed in my essay, I have three nights of stuff to go do
> (meeting a DD, incredibly rare hip-hop events), and about three months
> of sleep to catch up on. Having someone else poke at xorg would make me
> really, really happy.
>
> :) d
>
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