[ubuntu-x] Updated plans for Lucid?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Martin Olsson wrote:

> Geir Ove Myhr wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Are there any updated plans for xorg packages in Lucid? Last time it
>> was up on the mailing list was in November, and I guess things may
>> have changed since then.
>>
>> In November consensus seemed to be xserver 1.7, mesa 7.7, intel
>> 2009Q4, kernel 2.6.32 (but possibly with some stuff from drm-next),
>> xf86-input-wacom-0.10.1.
>>
>> I see that Lucid has had all the rcX of 7.6.1. Are the plans changed
>> to shipping 7.6.1 instead of 7.7?
>
> The mesa 7.7 series is a is a dev release series right? Not sure that's
> so good for LTS.. also I think most of the big new stuff in mesa is gallium
> bits which are not stable enough for mainstream anyway. For smaller things
> I think it's better to stay on 7.6 and backport specifics. I havn't used
> mesa 7.7 though and I havn't seen the changelog either.

7.7 is a devel release, but 7.7.1 will be a stable release. There won't be 
a 7.6.2, so going to 7.7 makes sense. It also has much improved 
support for r600_dri..

Here's the quick status of things as of today:

blocker: libdrm needs to be updated to 2.4.17 (or newer) for new 
intel/ati/nouveau/mesa. There are some known regressions though, and those 
are being worked on.

xserver: 1.7.4 will be released soon. The udev patch is now upstream 
(master), and so are the patches for xorg.conf.d and InputClass input 
device configuration (meaning that the configuration is handled _only_ in 
the xorg configuration files, not via udev or hal. Actually, no udev rules 
files are needed after these). We probably want to pull those, and the 
config patches will likely be included in Debian too, since the udev 
patch that went upstream is based on the InputClass work.

wacom: still no news from the Debian maintainer, meaning that we need to 
fork the package for now.

nouveau: The kernel team needs to decide what they are willing to support.

nvidia: looks like Alberto has a PPA for testing: 
https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/proprietary-video-improvements/+packages



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