MoonChild Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 The announcement is here: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/changelo...06/msg00799.php B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 Good. A lot of bugs in XFree86 4.3.x are fixed in 4.4 and the new X.org R6.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 I'm sure people are aware of this, but just in case... If you install Xorg and all of the font, xfs, etc files for it; make sure you reboot afterwards so the correct font server will be started. Xorg is in cooker right now, meaning it WILL be in 10.1 (especially after that announcement). I installed it this morning and from what I've seen, I like it. It uses a different configuration file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) but the format of the file is exactly the same as the XF86Config-4 file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 anyone use it on mandrake with nvidia yet? What driver are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Also, how stable is cooker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 I am using it with nvidia. It uses the same nvidia driver as XFree86 does. If you have nvidia set up with XFree, it will be set up with Xorg automatically Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Also, how stable is cooker? I've had few problems with cooker as a whole. Right now, there's a small issue with KDE, but that should be fixed within a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 sweet! thanks! I installed some self made by someone else rpms a couple of weeks ago and itr didn't work, though I didn't try very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 That's a good news. It seems that more and more distro are moving into X.org as their primary X server. Even the last holdout (Slackware) is moving to X.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 (edited) anyone use it on mandrake with nvidia yet? What driver are you using? Yup, out of an accident (again). urpmi.update -a -f && urpmi --auto-select, not really reading what the console output tells me, Enter, wonder about the load of bundles being installed, "oh. oop." Reboot, no prob. The cooker release symlinks your existing XF86Config-4 to xorg.conf, I didn't need to reinstall anything or change any settings. Works like a charm. You could probably get around the rebooting by restarting the xfs service by hand, but I haven't tried it. Just went the save way, i.e. reboot. ;) 93, -Sascha.rb Edited June 9, 2004 by nggalai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Does that mean that linux will run any faster and look better? Will we lose some programs that were already made? (I'm kinda clueless, barely any clue to what you talking about besides the fact that xfree86 and x.org seem to be the base of the gui's.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Does that mean that linux will run any faster and look better? Will we lose some programs that were already made? (I'm kinda clueless, barely any clue to what you talking about besides the fact that xfree86 and x.org seem to be the base of the gui's.) Run faster? Maybe. Look better? Maybe. Lose programs? Not a chance. Xorg is basically a gpl port of Xfree86-4.4 rc3, I think. It runs the same as XFree does. XFree/Xorg is the server that enables you to see the GUI (KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, IceWM, whatever you choose) The reason for Xorg coming into the light and the switch from XFree for every distro is due to a license change in XFree86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 As the codebase for xorg is currently very close to that of XFree (AFAIK they forked at Xfree86-4.4 rc2, just before the license change) I doubt you'll see many differences just yet. If anyone on here follows cooker closely (ie watches the output of the build system) do they know if Mandrake have started making rpms X11 agnostic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 I know a bit OT... but given how well mandrake do this.... WHy cant they market. If you imagine they must have had meetings and worked technically how to change to X.org and be X-agnostic :D and it is quite a feat... not switching the two .. theyre so similar at the moment but the RPM architecture etc.... Another exampe of how technically good MDK are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Also, how stable is cooker? Im using cooker on my laptop and it seems very stable, I do have one issue though. I compile Lsongs and installed the dependencies, which includes an older version of QT. After doing this I could not start KDE, I had to re-install the new version of QT (after removing the old) and I cannot use Lsongs. (Not that I wanted to anyway, I just like the radio tuner it has) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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