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falconindy

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Upgraded to Xorg1.8

...and it works beautifully! Up and running with the nvidia binary blob. Great work, Jan!

Anyone else try this out yet?

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

installed it on 2 intel machines, works great. i'll wait for the 2 other nvidia machines as performance seems to be slightly affected (according to Jan's post, i didn't try).

bobdob

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

I updated the other day. After wrestling to get my keyboard and mouse working properly it works pretty well. Plus hal is finally removed from my system.

flamelab

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Any info on official Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support ?

falconindy

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

From http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 16387.html :

Things todo before this merges to extra:
...
- Ask nvidia for a driver that works without ignoreABI, I'm sure they
can give us a timeframe for that
...

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flamelab

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

That's why I ask, i've already read that mail.

brebs

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Any info on official Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support ?

And the answer:

I'm afraid I can't make any promises as to when an updated driver might be released.

Army

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

I have it too, was not that much of a big deal for me, because I was on xorg-server-udev for the last couple of weeks. But now I deleted my udev rule and have everything set up in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*, it's quite easy. Really nicely done Jan! :-)

flamelab

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Any info on official Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support ?

And the answer:

I'm afraid I can't make any promises as to when an updated driver might be released.

Hmm, they are not used to be slow on such things .....

ngoonee

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Any info on official Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support ?

And the answer:

I'm afraid I can't make any promises as to when an updated driver might be released.

Hmm, they are not used to be slow on such things .....

Not in comparison to ATI, no.... but have you SEEN how long xrandr 1.2 support has been requested, and we're now on xrandr 1.3!

Of course, there's like 1 or 2 devs total on the linux side at nvidia....

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pyther

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Help improve the wiki to make this release awesome!
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg <= I already did most of the hard work, now it's your turn!

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maxi_jac

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Hi,
I upgraded too, no major problem but it looks like my QtCurve GTK theme is messed up now :

Maybe QtCurve has to be updated to work correctly with Xorg 1.8 ?

Ultraman

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

I'm thinking of putting Arch on my new laptop today and I would like go for Xorg 1.8 immediatly, so I can skip HAL and also an upgrade later on.
So that would be an installation using the stable repos and the xorg18 repo.
Is this viable? And what are the basics on going about that?
I would probably have to tell pacman I want to use xorg from the xorg18 repo instead of extra right?

maxi_jac

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

AFAIK you need [testing] to be enabled in conjunction with xorg18

combuster

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

No you don't, xorg18 does not depend on testing. I have it enabled without testing.

You have to put xorg18 to the top of the list of repos in pacman.conf. Some things still depend on hal, it will be pulled in probably if you install gnome ie as a group of packages but u can safely disable it afterwards (just remember to enable dbus in daemons section in rc.conf).

Ultraman

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

No you don't, xorg18 does not depend on testing. I have it enabled without testing.

You have to put xorg18 to the top of the list of repos in pacman.conf. Some things still depend on hal, it will be pulled in probably if you install gnome ie as a group of packages but u can safely disable it afterwards (just remember to enable dbus in daemons section in rc.conf).

Ah, on top, like the [testing] (I just read about how to use that one on the wiki )
Thanks for that tip!

For now i'm thinking of putting i3 on this laptop. See how I fare away from the usual Openbox.
So HAL won't directly be a problem in that area as they don't depend on it.

[Edit]
It's installed and running. Intel driver 2.11 works fine as well.
glxinfo shows what I want to see, and glxgears produces 60 FPS, but that's because of V-sync I bet (so perfectly normal).

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Ultraman

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95321

Got an issue with my Synaptics, for the rest it works great.
Perhaps the topic should be moved to [testing] or to this topic?
If any of you guys have pointers on how to solve the issue, I'd be grateful.
When I have some spare time, I'm gonna see if I can get udev to skip that device or something...

alecmg

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

ok, upgraded xorg, seems fine so far on my new laptop
Now I have to remember xorg.conf configuration for my keyboard/mouse/touchpad...

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flamelab

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

New Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support is out guys !

pyther

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

It is prerelease but here is the announcement on nvnews: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=2239062
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15152
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19224

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skottish

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

It is prerelease but here is the announcement on nvnews: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … ?p=2239062
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15152
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19224

Holicrapoli! Ain't that fancy? I got to get me one of those...

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Got one. It works.

Paul-S

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

Upgrade went great and I've been running it for a few days, was just wondering what people are using for burning cd/dvd that doesn't use hal.

cheers
Paul-S

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pyther

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

If I remember correctly I used brasero without a problem.

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falconindy

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

New Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support is out guys !

and... and... my glxgears score is still mega low! PLZ FIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

How am I expected to get any work done with Vim at only 500fps?

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wonder

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Re: Upgraded to Xorg1.8

New Nvidia driver with Xorg-server 1.8 support is out guys !

and... and... my glxgears score is still mega low! PLZ FIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

How am I expected to get any work done with Vim at only 500fps?

glxgears is not a benchmark!

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