Re: X.org

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 08:47, John Hasler wrote:
>Michel Di Croci writes:
>> How much devs are currently developping debian?
>
>Most of us don't know enough about X to be any use.  Of those that
> do some have chosen to participate in the X team.  No one assigns
> jobs to Debian developers.
>--
>John Hasler

Well, FWIW, I downloaded 6.8.1 from x.org when they released it (once 
the got the versions all lined up in a row that is) and built it here 
exactly as the instructions say.  In a relatively short time for a 
large project, I had it ready to do a make install, which I did.

AFAIAC, this is the first, truely bulletproof X I've ever had here, 
and it does several things XFree's didn't.  I can now play tuxracer 
on the generic drivers for my ati video card and it doesn't crash on 
quitting, which required a reset reboot before, and tuxracer runs at 
full speed, about 30x faster than before, and oh, it doesn't crash.  
I can have translucent windows and other such eye candy.  Did I 
mention it hasn't crashed?  Not yet in 4-5 months anyway.

Now, I've no idea how long it would take to make a .deb out of it, and 
frankly, for system specific stuff, nothing, absolutely nothing, 
beats building it on the system its going to run on IMO.

So whats your holdup?  If an old fart of 70 like me can do it, why 
can't you?  Yes, they do things a bit differently, but follow their 
directions and I think you'll find that it Just Works(TM).

-- 
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