[Bug 36461] Re: XOrg dualhead regression - X.org CVS fixed it!

[Ashley]

I can confirm that the new version of X.org in CVS no longer exhibits
this behaviour.  I managed to get X11 working with dualhead & Xinerama
by downloading and compiling all of its modules from CVS & Git.

I have an Intel i810, which is notoriously difficult to get working in
dualhead and *I* managed it, so I think that means everyone else should
have a very good chance of getting it working with their own setup.

I was able to build X.org CVS in my homedir and after a lot of messing
around with include paths and library paths finally managed to get
everything built - frustrating, but a real learning experience!

However, I now have 2 installs of X.org on my PC and the source tree is
nearly 2 GB in size so I think I'll reformat and do a server install and
build X.org in the usual place with the usual prefix of /usr.

And I now know that compiling X.org, libdrm and Mesa is a *very* fiddly
process (dependencies, and because bits of it are in Git & other bits in
CVS).

Does anyone know if there will be another stable release of X.org before
Edgy Eft is released?  If not, I strongly recommend that we backport the
small patch (see freedesktop bugzilla 6751) to the Dapper and/or Edgy
X.org packages so that dualhead is not broken.  It is really bad that
dualhead is broken for so many users right now - and if it doesn't make
it into Edgy we're looking at a 10 month wait for it to be fixed.

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XOrg  dualhead regression
https://launchpad.net/bugs/36461