It’s this time of the year again: a new X release approaches. The
upstream schedule has been
delayed a tiny bit
so that the multitouch changes could land in master
during this
merge window. Which is
what happened,
a few days before Christmas.
The other components involved in XI2.2
(aka. “multitouch”) were
packaged in experimental
while the server side was getting prepared:
Given we reached the
1.12 RC1
stage, it’s a good idea to start building drivers against the new
server to make it possible for users to perform some tests. And as
usual, a new server means bumped input and video ABI, meaning a
rebuild for the drivers to pick new dependencies. Some of them also
needed a few fixes to make them build against the new server. Nothing
that can’t be fixed with a few merges from upstream master
branches.
The usual set of “major” drivers was uploaded to experimental
:
xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-keyboard
xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-void
xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-dummy
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-vesa
Significant change on the intel side: a snapshot of the current
master
branch was created, and packaged
with SNA support enabled. SandyBridge's
New Acceleration has apparently reached a point where it can be
published to the masses, so here we go. Some details about it can be
found in the
initial commit.
Also, for those wondering about the xorg-server
FTBFS
on some
architectures,
fixes are pending.
Happy new year.