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Xorg 6.9 & 7.0 Release Candidate 1
Posted:
Oct 21, 2005 7:25 PM
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Xorg 6.9 & 7.0 Release Candidate 1 was released this week by the
X.Org Foundation. The announcement and pointers to sources can
be found at:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-October/010668.html
Highlights of changes in this release are found at:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ChangesSince68
Detailed change logs for those who want gory levels of detail can be
found at:
http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/ChangeLog?rev=1.1448&view=markup
Particularly interesting things to test on Solaris include:
- Changing keyboard driver from deprecated "keyboard" to new "kbd"
(newly supported on Solaris in this release - shouldn't result in
any really noticable functionality changes)
- Audio Bell - in InputDevice section for your keyboard in xorg.conf, add:
Option "BellDevice" "/dev/audio"
- The new EXA acceleration architecture for some chipsets from ATI, SiS,
and XGI - see http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ExaStatus for details. (At least
on the ATI Radeons in the Ferrari's it seems to make the torture test of
rolling the mouse over the different areas on the right side of the top
section on the www.sun.com home page a little smoother at updating the
big picture, though that may be my imagination since I don't have a good
benchmark to measure it with.)
Also, while I've been regularly building both the 6.9/imake-based and
7.0/autoconf-based trees on Solaris 10 on SPARC and x86, those who
want to run on older OS releases may want to check to make sure everything
still builds and runs well on them.
I've integrated it with our Solaris Xorg sources, and made test packages
available inside Sun, but unfortunately can't release on opensolaris.org
right now - if all goes well, they should be integrated into an upcoming
Nevada build and distributed via Solaris Express.
These will also form the basis of our initial X source release via
OpenSolaris, which is still planned for later this quarter.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan dot coopersmith at sun dot com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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