X Server 1.6.0 Has Been Released

FLCLFan · 2009-02-26 00:24:44

X Server 1.6.0 is finally out guys

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … r_16&num=1

venky80 · 2009-02-26 00:34:36

waiting for it to show up in the testing repo..;)....are there any significant advantages which end users will see?

Lexion · 2009-02-26 01:38:15

Sweet...

Me want

evr · 2009-02-26 01:52:25

venky80 wrote:

are there any significant advantages which end users will see?

FTA: X Server 1.6 introduces the server bits for Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2 (the 3D bits can already be found in Mesa and the Intel driver), X Input 1.5 with device properties, Predictable Pointer Acceleration, and RandR 1.3. Beyond those key features, there are also a number of bug-fixes, EXA improvements, and various other improvements.

sand_man · 2009-02-26 03:44:11

Yes those awful mounting errors a lot of us are getting should go away

tinhtruong · 2009-02-26 04:12:44

As far as I know, the performance improvement is not that much with the current kernel (2.6.28), but we will see a huge performance improvement with kernel 2.6.29. Let's see!

sand_man · 2009-02-26 04:31:25

tinhtruong wrote:

As far as I know, the performance improvement is not that much with the current kernel (2.6.28), but we will see a huge performance improvement with kernel 2.6.29. Let's see!

Source?

skottish · 2009-02-26 04:33:11

And once again ATI users get to suffer. There's currently no xorg-server 1.6 support.

Allan · 2009-02-26 04:42:20

sand_man wrote:

tinhtruong wrote:
As far as I know, the performance improvement is not that much with the current kernel (2.6.28), but we will see a huge performance improvement with kernel 2.6.29. Let's see!
Source?

Maybe:
http://www.h-online.com/news/Kernel-Log … s--/112431
and links within.

venky80 · 2009-02-26 07:08:55

seems lot of intel specific improvements....is that true or all graphics cards will see improvements?

zenlord · 2009-02-26 10:11:13

IIRC, Intel is the first with GEM-support, but the others should follow.

Zl.

pdunning · 2009-02-26 21:55:37

are there any significant advantages which end users will see?

I hope so, at least on Intel. Recently things have been very slow on my GMA 3100 card - It all started when the intel driver dropped support for the old TTM memory manager before the kernel supported the replacement GEM (It needed 2.6.28). What's more, It's still not at full speed as I think GEM is only supported in this new X server and mesa 7.3.

And once again ATI users get to suffer. There's currently no xorg-server 1.6 support.

This is a problem ATI suffers on 1.6, Intel suffers on 1.5. Is there any way to get pacman to offer both packages?

Themaister · 2009-02-26 22:53:36

I don't think that would be very compilant with the "KISS"-principle Should be pretty simple making an AUR-entry.

skottish · 2009-02-27 02:15:47

pdunning wrote:

This is a problem ATI suffers on 1.6, Intel suffers on 1.5. Is there any way to get pacman to offer both packages?

I think that it will end up being a user-space issue much like the wonderful (thank you mutlu_inek) repo for older Intel stuff:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66057

I know that Arch is looking for someone to attempt to maintain catalyst, but right now it's not looking like a pretty task:

http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 10394.html

b9anders · 2009-02-27 08:39:12

pdunning wrote:

are there any significant advantages which end users will see?
I hope so, at least on Intel. Recently things have been very slow on my GMA 3100 card - It all started when the intel driver dropped support for the old TTM memory manager before the kernel supported the replacement GEM (It needed 2.6.28). What's more, It's still not at full speed as I think GEM is only supported in this new X server and mesa 7.3.
And once again ATI users get to suffer. There's currently no xorg-server 1.6 support.
This is a problem ATI suffers on 1.6, Intel suffers on 1.5. Is there any way to get pacman to offer both packages?

IgnorePkg in pacman.conf.

will1911a1 · 2009-02-27 13:38:18

skottish wrote:

And once again ATI users get to suffer. There's currently no xorg-server 1.6 support.

Oh good. Guess I'll be skipping that update.

leeyee · 2009-02-27 14:23:55

Ohh... I'm still suffering from X flaws with ATI card, too bad to hear that newer X server support worse.

bangkok_manouel · 2009-02-27 14:32:17

leeyee wrote:

Ohh... I'm still suffering from X flaws with ATI card, too bad to hear that newer X server support worse.

well... ATI support is bad. not Xorg's one.

leeyee · 2009-02-27 14:48:36

bangkok_manouel wrote:

leeyee wrote:
Ohh... I'm still suffering from X flaws with ATI card, too bad to hear that newer X server support worse.
well... ATI support is bad. not Xorg's one.

Yup I know, but my card is not well support by xf86-video-ati or radeonhd yet, so I'm just waiting. I hate catalyst but I have to live with it.

iBertus · 2009-02-27 16:02:47

Any word on what will happen with nvidia users? I seem to remember waiting forever for the binary blob to support the last release of X. Or was that two releases back?

dolby · 2009-02-27 16:43:22

iBertus wrote:

Any word on what will happen with nvidia users? I seem to remember waiting forever for the binary blob to support the last release of X. Or was that two releases back?

the latest nvidia drivers 180.35 IIRC already support xorg-server 1.6 \o/

skottish · 2009-02-27 17:24:18

dolby wrote:

\o/

Agreed: \o/

skottish · 2009-02-27 19:03:56

bangkok_manouel wrote:

leeyee wrote:
Ohh... I'm still suffering from X flaws with ATI card, too bad to hear that newer X server support worse.
well... ATI support is bad. not Xorg's one.

Good point. I should have said Catalyst users and not ATI users.

ConnorBehan · 2009-02-28 02:31:47

GEM support for the radeon driver is in a working state. I will try to get a PKGBUILD out the door once xorg-server 1.6 is in testing. (If anyone cares).

Runiq · 2009-02-28 07:07:35

ConnorBehan wrote:

GEM support for the radeon driver is in a working state. I will try to get a PKGBUILD out the door once xorg-server 1.6 is in testing. (If anyone cares).

I do! Just to piss off my brother with his fancy nvidia card. XD

Now, seriously, I'd appreciate it.

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