Re: Modular X

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Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Bart Vanbrabant wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just installed the new modular X from rawhide. Everything went quite
>> good except for two problems:
>>
>> 1) The nvidia driver doesn't handle modular X yet. But I solved it by
>> manually moving all libraries to their new places. This isn't something
>> that should be handled by fedora.
>
> I believe Nvidia provides a driver that works with the dlopen loader
> used in modular X.  I'm not sure how it is provided exactly, but
> hopefully the livna.org nvidia rpms will update to using the new
> driver, and move things to the new locations.
>
>> 2) There were two paths in my xorg.conf that pointed to the old /usr/X11
>> places. Those where ModulePath and RgbPath. I changed them like this:
>>         RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
>>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>
> Aha!  Good catch!  Please file these in bugzilla.  I'll have to massage
> our X server installation to remove these lines from the config, and get
> our config tools changed to stop writing out unnecessary lines to the
> config file as it ends up breaking future X changes down the line.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173465
>
>> It this something that other users could have problems with to? Because
>> then a postinstall script should check for this. Do I need to file a
>> bugreport?
>
> Yes definitely, please do!  Thanks very much for testing, and for the
> reports too!
>
No problem.

Bart

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