On 18:03 Wed 02 Jun , Bernhard Prell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 Peter Hutterer kindly responded: > > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 12:04:57PM +0200, Bernhard Prell wrote: > > > > ... <snip>... > > > > > Today I updated a linux installation to xorg 1.7 (the distribution is > > > gentoo btw.) and was confronted with a message that support for the > > > elographics driver was dropped. > > > > are you sure you're talking about elographics here? it's one of the few > > input drivers that's half-maintained. it's being kept buildable and even > > saw some real changes more-or-less recently. It certainly builds, git > > master does so anyway. It's overdue for a release though so maybe that's > > the issue here? > > > > Yes, I am talking about elographics. > I fetched the latetst version from git master and injected it into a normal > "emerge" of the xf86-input-elographics-1.2.3 "ebuild" (gentoo-package). > (Pausing the emerge by ctrl-z, cp, fg) > It works very well as far as I can see! :-) > Obviously it has not diffused yet to the responsible gentoo package > maintainer...
The latest tarball release of the driver was probably broken when 1.7 came out. We generally only add released stuff, so if there's not a driver release that works with a server release, it often doesn't make it into Gentoo. Since the last release of elographics was in 2008, that's likely what happened. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
