Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/02/10 00:34, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:22:51PM +0100, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> > I recently visited the x.org websites and saw that X11R7.5 (a.k.a. X.org
> > server 1.7) has been available for a while now as a stable release. In
> > Factory as well as OBS, I still see R7.4 though.
> > Are there plans to upgrade X.org to that newer release in Factory?
> > I would have guessed that with all the buzz about KMS and phasing out
> > sax2 that an upgrade of X.org was in the works, but I couldn't find
> > stuff to test there...
>
> While we are at it: If/when 1.7 is going in, many people who are using
> 1.6.x right now are in for a surprise: The dpi behaviour is changed back
> to the old (pre xrandr) behaviour where everything is seen as 96 dpi and
> any different value needs to be given *as a command line argument* to the
> xserver. It seems that there is no xorg.conf parameter to achieve this
> and there also is no way to get back to the 1.6 behaviour at all (i.e.
> pick the dpi value from xrandr). This is intentional although I fail to
> understand the arguments. Please see
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705
> for details.
>
>  Ciao
>        Joerg
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.

What are those guys thinking? If the car makers followed similar
thinking, we'd be back to crank handles in place of ignition systems.
I don't know of any other desktops, as they claim, where you have to
fiddle with such garbage.
Regards
Sid.

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