Re: [Thinstation-general] Update xorg in 5.1-Unstable?

[Michael K <ts....@gm...>]

It's actually not possible to update Xorg in 5.1. There are a huge number
of interdependencies that make this nearly impossible, and so you need a
whole updated software stack. Hence 6.0. The fact that 6.0 isn't fully
stable yet speaks towards how much things change in Linux land in just a
few years.

Just to give you an idea - it's actually not just an updated Xorg you need
in going from 7.6 to 7.7. You actually need the updated Mesa that goes
along with it (or your Xorg update won't have what you need). Mesa needs
updated LLVM compiler, but you can't update LLVM without breaking
internationation and you can't update internationalization without
recompiling just about everything else.

Now if you're on TS 6.0, someone might be able to upgrade just xorg-server
as you suggested, but there are still some bigger picture issues that are
affecting other people as well (particularly the missing radeonsi support).
I've been talking to Don about this, and there's work being done, but there
are some complications.


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Christoph Litauer
<li...@un...>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently asked in another thread but maybe nobody followed that ... so
> let me try again:
> Currently I am driving 6.0-Unstable because I need newer kernel and xorg
> versions for my GPU. In the meantime the kernel in 5.1-Unstable is newer
> but xorg is not.
> Is it possible to upgrade xorg from 7.6-1 (5.1) to 7.7-1 (6.0)?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> --
> Kind regards
> Christoph
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