Patched Xfree86 4.3.0 in Debian

[Kjetil K. <kj...@kj...>]

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Hi all!

Long time, no see! Seems to have been quiet around here lately...?

Well, I bring some good news (and I need a little advice): Some of you=20
might allready know, thanks to some great work by Andreas Schuldei and=20
others, the patches to X most of us need to run multi-head setups have=20
been applied to the Debian packages, they have been in the unstable=20
release for 11 days now, and today, they are going into Sarge. Unless=20
it breaks the system of somebody who aren't using it, it will be in=20
Sarge when it some day is released as Stable! Which means, it will be=20
accessible to many more users. Cool, eh? The first version it can be=20
found in is 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1.

There has been some changes to the patch however. It has been reviewed=20
by Branden Robinson in particular and the rest of the Debian X Strike=20
=46orce team. Branden felt that "PrefBusID" wasn't very descriptive of=20
what it really does, so it is in Debian known as "IsolateDevice". They=20
have also written some documentation to it and made some other minor=20
changes if I understand it correctly. In addition to "IsolateDevice",=20
it also has a "SingleCard" layout option.=20

If I have understood the branches in the repository, the diff is=20
available at
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/branches-4.3.0-sid/debian/patches=
/080_pci_isolate_device_feature.diff
and I thought you guys might want to review it.=20

I haven't tried the new packages out myself yet, I plan to do it Real=20
Soon Now[tm]. But before I venture off into the somewhat unknown, I=20
just wanted to ask those who understand the patch: To reconfigure my X=20
servers to use the new Debian packages, all I have to do is=20
s/PrefBusID/IsolateDevice/g
right?

Then, I wondered about the HOWTO: Probably, we should now add some=20
Debian-specific notes, now that people most likely can just use Sarge=20
or Sid and get the X servers they need, but must use slightly different=20
options than the rest of the world. Unless you guys find Branden's=20
changes reasonable, and adopt and recommend the above patch to others=20
that want to get this stuff running, in which case the HOWTO could be=20
changed to reflect the new names. So, what do you think about that?=20

Cheers,

Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
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