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Debian Sid Moves to X.Org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the politics-and-guis-oh-my dept.

debiansid writes "Yes, Debian sid finally has X.Org. The Changelogs suggest that some work has been taken from the Ubuntu packages of X.Org. Here is an article that gives details on how to migrate to X.Org on sid. This article, by the way, has been posted from an X.Org based X-Window System, and it really IS much faster than XFree86."

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  1. changelogs by bonk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ubuntu changelogs suggest some work was taken from Debian as well.

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    I hope to die peacefully in my sleep like grandpa, not screaming like his passengers.
  2. One complication... by stevey · · Score: 5, Informative

    One complication to the upgrade not really covered here (I wrote that article) is the simultaneous C++ ABI transition Debian Unstable is going through.

    This means that upgrading might cause you to loose a lot of packages like gdm, etc.

    So if you try the upgrade and apt-get, or aptitude demand you remove lots of packages then the reason is the C++ ABI change - and if you simply wait a few days/weeks it should resolve itself.

    At the time the article was posted things were less bad.

  3. Re:Oh really? by niko9 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I forgot to add:

    * ATI Radeon driver updates:
    o Merged Framebuffer support (dualhead with DRI)
    o DynamicClocks option (reduced power usage)
    o Render acceleration (r100, r200 chips only)
    o Support for new ATI chips (R420/M18, R423, RV370/M22, RV380/M24, RS300)
    o DRI support for IGP chips
    o Xv gamma correction
    o Updated 3D drivers
    o Many other small fixes
    * Chips driver update
    o Improved BE support
    * MGA driver updates
    o Support for DDC and DPMS on second head on G400
    o Updated 3D driver
    * Neomagic driver updates
    o Support for Xv on pre-nm2160 chips
    o Pseudocolor overlay mode (=PseudoColor emulation)
    o Improved support for lowres double scan modes
    * i810 driver updates
    o Dualhead support (i830+)
    o i915 support
    o New 3D driver (i830+)
    o i810 driver is now supported for AMD64
    * S3 driver updates
    o Support for additional IBM RAMDACS
    * Savage driver updates
    o Pseudocolor overlay mode
    * SiS driver updates include
    o output device hotplugging
    o lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760
    o extended interface for SiSCtrl?
    o extended LCD handling (allow more modes)
    o HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p. 1080i; 315/330 series)
    o Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series)
    o extended RENDER acceleration
    o SiS driver now supported on AMD64
    * New Voodoo driver (Alan Cox)
    o Provides native (glide-less) acceleration and mode setup for voodoo/voodoo2 boards

  4. Under the hood ... by Ezdaloth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    with all the good work on tranparancy, and nice effects, i'm still missing one big under-the-hood change: use something like DRM/DRI for all 2d graphics too! (similar to directfb, windows, maxosX, etc)

    Currently there are hundreds of context-switches between the x-server and your applications just to draw things. Windows doens't have that (since w2k anyways) and it increased windows' graphics performance quite some bit. MacOS has quartz extreme 2d now, and it increased their performance. This really slows things down. :-(

    I think before more fancy effects are added that only make the whole thing slower are added, these under-the-hood optimizations should be done!