Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 Feb 2010 01:31:23 Sid Boyce wrote:
> 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.

It would seem they been taking lessons from the KDE folks we are going to do 
whatever we want and screw the users .
They are just going to make life  hell again   maybe if they put some work 
into  ATI stuff they might get a bit of praise instead of a slating off.

Pete .


Pete .

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