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Re: X.org plans for the squeeze cycle



Le mercredi 09 septembre 2009 à 14:04 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : 
> If not at X side, is it a possibility to either (a) add the new memory
> manager to lenny (I assume not), or (b) tell the users "you need to
> upgrade your kernel first" (and make the new X pre-depending somehow
> on the kernel). 

This sounds like the udev case for the sarge → etch upgrade. This was
solved with a big hack in the preinst, that surprisingly turned out to
work. If there is no other way, this is an option.

> Of course, this sounds to me like "people need to do
> updates in console mode", which ... isn't the best either.

Not necessarily. The only thing is that people must not restart X before
rebooting. This will, of course, cause trouble with (at least) GDM,
which will restart itself and re-launch X when you log out after an
upgrade.

Having the driver fall back to vesa when no kernel support is found, as
Julien proposed, sounds like a more reliable solution.

-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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`. `'   “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling

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