[ubuntu-x] plans for Lucid?

[Alberto Milone]

On Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 21:12:47 Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:16:27PM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> > > Given all the above I'm leaning more towards xserver 1.7.  I know a lot
> > > of new features are planned for 1.8, but don't know yet that those
> > > features are absolutely required in Ubuntu.
> >
> > Good points, and I forgot that RHEL6 should be based on F12 which has
> > 1.7, so it will likely get a few point releases and a lot of testing.
> > We'd need to patch libudev support though, and possibly the vga-arb stuff
> > unless it's in 1.7.. can't remember nor check.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the vga-arb stuff when you get a chance?
> 
Here's an extract from the release notes of X server 1.7.0:

== VGA arbitration support ==
VGA arbitration re-enables support for multiple graphics cards by
controlling which one of the multiple cards gets the VGA commands.
This also brings back support for multi-seat setups.

Requires libpciaccess and kernel 2.6.32.

> Patching in libudev support sounds sane.  We'll definitely need it one
> way or another.  Does only the xserver need patched for this, or do
> other things need patched as well?  Any idea if redhat is looking to do
> this for their xserver 1.7?
> 

My patch for -synaptics which allow quirks for touchpads requires hal, as the 
quirks live in the fdi file. I think I'll have to find another way to do it 
with udev.

If udev is ready to replace hal with X then it's ok to drop hal. I thought 
there was no ETA for this though.

> Okay, 1.7 is sounding like the logical choice.  Any other considerations
> we should take into account?  Anyone else have feedback on this choice?
> 

I'm ok with either keeping 1.6.x or with upgrading to 1.7.x. After all Lucid 
will be an LTS.

Regards,

-- 
Alberto Milone
Sustaining Engineer (system)
Foundations Team
Canonical OEM Services