Re: wip-xorg-server-1.18

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Andy,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> My Broadwell laptop hasn't had working accelerated OpenGL since I
> installed it.  It was using the llvmpipe, a software path.  Eventually
> when I looked into it, it turned out that was because the
> xf86-video-intel package was too old and disabled acceleration for my
> chipset.  So I wrote an xorg updater, which uncovered about 62 package
> updates.  There are in wip-xorg-server-1.18, or eventually will be once
> the send-email git hook finishes running.

Awesome, thanks for taking this on!  Hydra has been building this (along
with the pulseaudio, gstreamer, and libvpx updates) on the
'media-updates' branch.

One problem that has turned up is that 6 of the video drivers you
updated no longer build, because our local patches no longer apply
cleanly to them:

  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1039955 (xf86-video-mga)
  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1037199 (xf86-video-r128)
  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1036050 (xf86-video-siliconmotion)
  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1034473 (xf86-video-tdfx)
  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1040961 (xf86-video-trident)
  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1043614 (xf86-video-vmware)

There's another video driver that you didn't update, but that no longer
builds against the new xorg-server:

  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1042309 (xf86-video-voodoo)

Updating these poorly maintained video drivers has always been the
biggest hindrance to updating xorg-server, and is the reason that my
last attempt on the wip-xorg-server-1.17 branch stalled.

    Thanks,
      Mark