Announcing X.Org packages for Hoary

[Philippe Landau]

> Announcing a long-awaited feature for Ubuntu: X.Org packages.
> Cheers!
> Daniel Stone and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, Ubuntu X maintainers
great work, thank you: nothing changed :-)

is there a way to reduce the resolution of the login screen ?

did encoding of the word "Exposé"
in the announcement email fail for other recipients too ?

kind regards     philippe

--

> Announcing a long-awaited feature for Ubuntu: X.Org packages.
> 
> Since Ubuntu's public announcement in September, 'does it have X.Org?'
> has been one of the most frequently-asked questions.  Until now, the
> answer to that was that we were based on XFree86 4.3.0, with some
> 320,000 lines of patches; however, the answer to that question is now
> dead simple: Yes!
> 
> For the last two weeks, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto and Daniel Stone have
> been locked in a room together, and we now have packages to show for it.
> The upgrade from XFree86 to X.Org should be perfectly smooth and
> seamless, and it is supported across Ubuntu's three architectures:
> amd64, i386, and powerpc.
> 
> This release brings many new features, and hopefully even more hardware
> support than before.  This represents one of the most significant core
> package updates we have ever tried in Ubuntu, and is the result of weeks
> of work.
> 
> To upgrade, you must be running the Hoary tree[0]; if you simply run
> a Smart Upgrade in Synaptic, or 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade', your system
> should automatically get upgraded to X.Org.  The next time you restart
> GDM (either by running 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart', which will kill
> your active session, or by restarting the machine), you will be running
> the X.Org X server.
> 
> Please bear in mind that this represents the first public release of
> these packages, and as such there will no doubt be bugs to be found.  In
> particular, people using ATI chipsets may experience X server crashes
> when the resolution given in the configuration file is incorrect; also,
> use of Synaptic may cause a very loud error about the locale being
> unknown.  Copy and paste between some GTK1 applications (e.g. emacs) is
> known to be problematic.
> 
> While this release also features the Composite extension, which enables
> true transparency, Expos�-like functionality, etc, this extension is
> still experimental.  As such, it has been disabled by default, and we
> have respected this default.  If you want to enable the Composite
> extension, add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> Section "Extensions"
> 	Option	"Composite"	"Enabled"
> EndSection
> 
> but please be aware that you may experience random crashes, and
> performance using Composite is still rather sluggish at this stage.
> This is not an Ubuntu-specific problem: it is an architectural problem
> with the current X.Org server.
> 
> That being said, if you are confident that you can deal with any
> unexpected breakage that may occur, please upgrade to X.Org and give it
> all the testing it needs!  If you find a bug, please report it through
> our bug tracking system[1].
> 
> Cheers!
> Daniel Stone and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, Ubuntu X maintainers
> 
> [0]: See Matt Zimmerman's announcement of hoary:
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000005.html
> [1]: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com
> 
> -- Daniel Stone <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
> 
> 
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