Idea #10197: Make xorg 7.4 Available for optional installation in Hardy

Written by Methuselah the 23 Jun 08 at 06:24. Category: Hardware support.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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DRI is supposed to be supported for my radeon x700 but it's broken in xorg 7.3 with the available DRM/DRI modules.

“ATI RADEON X550/X700 Series “, RV410, 5657
“ATI RADEON X550/X700 Series Secondary “, RV410, 5677

I tried xorg 7.4 in a live CD environment and was able to get DRI working right away. There are probably other people with these issues who are wondering why DRI isn't working on chipsets that are supposed to be supported. Interestingly, xorg 7.3 also does not detect my widescreen display and displayconfig-gtk has been removed from the menus.

Providing some .deb packages for xorg 7.4 (even in an out-of-the-way repository that has to be manually disabled) that will work with ubuntu-desktop would be very useful for people like me.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 23 Jun 08 at 06:36

Yeah, I would like to be able to use Xorg 7.4 when it will be available.

francois wrote on the 23 Jun 08 at 08:37

+1
I also have problems with DRI

Vadim P. wrote on the 23 Jun 08 at 12:25

If you enable hardy-proposed, there's 7.3 but with an update available. Maybe they backported the support to it?

brettalton wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 20:48

@Vadim:

what are you talking about?
* feisty (x11): X.Org X Window System
1:7.2-0ubuntu11: amd64 i386 powerpc
* gutsy (x11): X.Org X Window System
1:7.2-5ubuntu13: amd64 i386 powerpc
* hardy (x11): X.Org X Window System
1:7.3+10ubuntu10: amd64 i386
* intrepid (x11): X.Org X Window System
1:7.3+10ubuntu11: amd64 i386

What X.org 7.4 LiveCD is this?

Vadim P. wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:17

It won't be included in the 8.04 LiveCD, of course. The thing was just released - for all you know, it broke half of other cards.

It'll most likely get into 8.10.

Methuselah wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 12:06

I used a script provided by 'xorg-edgers' to upgrade by 8.04 Live CD environment to xorg 7.4. That's how I confirmed DRI for my class of card is only supported by those drivers. It's a bug in 7.3 because the x700 should have been supported. I researched before buying it.

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