Xorg 7.1 feat. Kompose

Originally uploaded by Framed Geek.

After spending lile my half Saturday and a whole Sunday, I finally managed to taste Xorg 7.1. It’s been a quite long awaited dream. Desperate to see how the performance boost would be, yesterday, I decided to build Xorg 7.1 from source.

I choose to build Xorg using jhbuild which seem to offer many otomation. And apparently (luckily) it does. Following the guide on Xorg page, I build the source step by step. it was all goes smooth like what the page said. My first error was indeed the xcb thingy, but later the story wrecks out beyond teh available scenario. Luckily, the issues weren’t to hard to solve. Mostly dealing with pulling the source yourself or adusting environment variable. from knowing nothing about how jhbuild works, I grasp things bit by bit. I even start to admire git. It’s cool, tought it wasn’t as simple Subversion. Got plenty of features hidden inside. So far what I;ve known only git clone and git pull ^^. Enough for checking out and updating source :p.

So, how’s Xorg 7. feel? When this could be a feeling but it felt somewhat snapier. My Kompose which previously worked rather sluggish is now works smoother. it still took some delay when taking screenshot but I think it takes lesser time than before. AIXGL still doesn’t wok for i don’t have the i915 module in my new Xorg 7.1. Weird eh? My olf Xorg seems to be b0rked, graphic looks ugly with green noises. guess it’s time to move permanently to Xorg 7.1.

Okay, I’ll leave you wth the screenshot. I’ll tell you more as I go with this Xorg 7.2. Until then, enjoy ^^

[geek@toni ~]$ xdpyinfo
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 70199002
X.Org version: 7.1.99.2

Info AIGLX

[geek@toni ~]$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep AIGLX
(==) AIGLX enabled
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×23
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×24
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×25
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×26
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×27
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×28
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×29
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×2a
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×2b
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×2c
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×2d
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×2e
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×2f
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×30
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×31
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0×32
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /home/geek/xorg/lib/dri/i915_dri.so


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