So spyderous has been spouting the virtues of the new r200 and r300 stuff in xorg-7.1, so I finally decided to give it a whirl. Thanks to the new modular structure of X, the upgrade went very fast. Everthing was very peachy up until the starting any OpenGL application as it gave me a ton of errors in dmesg like so
[drm:r300_emit_3d_load_vbpntr] *ERROR* Offset failed range check (k=0 i=2) while processing 3D_LOAD_VBPNTR packet.
Kernel monkey and all round slacker dsd has convinced me to attend the Gentoo UK 2006 conference on July 8th :)So if you wonder what I look like, have questions about baselayout, what my plans are for it or just want buy me a pint then come along! I won’t be speaking 8) much to everyones great relief ;)
He’s my hero!OK, so I hosed my laptops root (don’t ask how- ok, I was trying to be overly clever with /dev nodes in a very experimental baselayout ebuild) so I thought, well, as my entire config has gone may as well wipe everything except for /home and start over. So I unpacked a stage 3, rebuilt my toolchain with the nice–as-needed LDFLAG and emerged system. Nice! Nothing needed unstable keywords bar binutils, glibc and gcc :)So why is Flameeyes my hero?
As I threatened earlier, baselayout-1.12.0 has been released. Over a year in the making we’ve fixed a tremendous amount of bugs and added quite a few new features. Hopefully it will go straight to stable with a minimum of fuss :)A big thanks to all the reporters, patch creators for helping out and a big thanks to the users who keep on sending me fan mail- it’s really great 8)
A lot of people have been asking of late when baselayout-1.12 will go stable. Well, I’ve decided that enough is enough and I’ll be making a 1.12.0 tarball as soon as I get feedback about a unionfs bug. 8) Baring any show stopping bugs that package will be requested to be made stable after the usual 30 days. So now is a very good time to try out 1.12 if you haven’t already- just check bugzilla for a few bugs that will be fixed for the next release if you have any issues.
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