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dejavu

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 103

xorg-server-git

hi,

i wanna try a recent version of xorg-server.
the reasons are: the current xserver has a bad exa performance [1]
and also the option migrationheuristic [2] has a bug with kde 4.1/2b.

i am using a radeon mobility 7500, i think r200 based.

so i tried xorg-server-git but this package couldn't be compiled.
there are some problems with it, for example the patches doesn't
work and it needs a newer randrproto as in the repo is.

best wishes

[1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi … erformance
[2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19059

Demon

Member

From: Republic of Srpska, BA

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 246

Re: xorg-server-git

Hi!

You might wanna take a look at this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61650

Just to inform you that I've successfuly compiled and install latest xorg-server along with its dependancies, but it doesn't work: X reports some ABI versions don't match. I suppose we also need newer kernel modul (I'm running 2.6.28 kernel).

dejavu

Member

Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 103

Re: xorg-server-git

thanks a lot, that was especially what i have searched.

i'll paste ati-dri-git, xf86-video-ati-git and xf86-input-synaptics-git in that thread, because i' have needed it additionally.

best wishes