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
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Joerg Mayer