Xorg 7.4 release plan

Donnie Berkholz dberkholz at gentoo.org
Tue Feb 26 12:30:43 PST 2008


On 14:06 Tue 26 Feb     , Adam Jackson wrote:
> Input is not stable.  Since the last time I rebased X in fedora, I've
> had complaints about inability to switch keymaps, broken control-alt-foo
> combos, stuck axes on mice, keymap changes disappearing at runtime, etc.
> We never shipped 1.4 in fedora, but afaict XKB was fairly broken there
> too.  I'm really loathe to revert XKB to its 1.3 implementation, but in
> the absence of fixes, I'll do what needs doing.  Likewise input hotplug
> needs a sensible transition plan before I can really ship it.

Things work pretty well in 1.4.0.90 (1.4 was worse, iirc) as long as you 
pretend evdev doesn't exist.

Thanks,
Donnie



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