xorg on amd64

[Corbin Simpson]

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Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:06:01PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
>> Just wondering if there was an interest group for getting Xorg working
>> completely on the amd64 (as a 64 bit kernel &libs) platform?  If so, do those
>> folks have a separate list?  I'd love to find that, and read all the articles.
>> I tried to get it building, immediately, there are some include dependency
>> problems, probably more, and I'm curious if much work's been done on this?
> 
> No, because it just works out of the box, and has for the past, er, five
> years.  Again, I think your life might be a lot simpler if you only saw
> problems as problems, rather than guessed that anything you could think
> of would be a problem.  ('The human digestive system probably isn't
> suited to onion rings.  How can I work out a way to eat onion rings?
> Does anyone know if this is possible? I tried staring at an onion and
> then skinning it, but digestion did not result.')

Thank you for making me choke on my drink. Just what I needed today. :3

Um, I have amd64 Gentoo here, and I have built and used Xorg 1.4, 1.4.2,
and (currently) from git, and no arch-specific problems.

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