[xwin-discuss] Re: Re: [desktop-discuss] Some Xorg 7.1 and Xgl stuff

[Ken Mays]

Sorry if I confused things with my last e-mail - merging the Xsun & Xorg trees
will only affect those building the code or installing the packages from a
build. It will not change the Xsun code in any way, or in any way change our
lack of an Xorg server on SPARC. Users installing a full Solaris build
will not see any difference at all.

> Xorg 7.2 is the other main thing.

The community Xorg 7.2RC1 release has slipped, so I don't know when our build
will be available.

-- 
-Alan Coopersmith- alan dot coopersmith at sun dot com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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Alan,

Hmmm.... this may affect some development ports dealing with:

1. Compiz 0.2.0
2. Beryl 0.1.0 (http://www.beryl-project.org)
3. GNOME 2.16

There is a lot of issues in trying to support the window managers on various graphic cards - especially for SPARC legacy cards/drivers. From a past note, XVR-2500 is a viable option - so maybe Xorg 7.x with legacy SPARC device driver support for XVR-600/XVR-1200/XVR-2500 a worth development effort?? Or, will Xsun framework/device driver support provide us with backend capability for Compiz/Beryl plugins effects to work properly with the XVR cards device drivers? 

I review the MEsa 6.5.1 integration a few months ago and now with the latest in Beryl and COmpiz 0.2.0, it wuold be nice to see this happen on both SPARC and x86 platforms.

Ken M.
EarthLink, Inc.
 
 
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