Severe X breakage heads up

[darrell pfeifer]

On Nov 13, 2007 5:28 PM, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 15:30 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > I plan to rebase the X server to git master a week from today (Monday,
> > November 12), which means the changes should hit rawhide on Tuesday.
>
> Okay, so that didn't happen.  But things are mostly built now, at least
> for the big important core bits.  They should be on their way to a
> mirror near you tomorrow, assuming the rawhide push goes out.
>
> If you're not using radeon/nv/intel, expect that X will break, and that
> you'll need to switch to vesa or fbdev.  If you're using an input driver
> other than keyboard or mouse, expect those devices to stop working.
>
> I'll be cleaning up the rest of the mess as we go.  Please do file bugs
> about any weirdness you encounter (outside of the above known caveats).
>

Gave it a try with a laptop with an ATI R300 card. Graphics works just fine.
With the xserver from a few days ago, compiz doesn't want to start on
several machines.

Synaptics didn't load so no mouse. (Ooops, I should have read between the lines)

darrell