ANNOUNCEMENT: Modular X.Org X11R7 RC2 coming to a theatre near you.

[Mike A. Harris]

Overview:
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Modular X.Org X11R7 RC2 rpm packaging has now been whipped mostly
into shape enough for rawhide testing to begin soon.  As such,
modular X could appear in rawhide as soon as tomorrow, however if
we discover any major issues in between now and then, we might
delay it a day or so if necessary.

Most if not all of the rest of Fedora Core has been updated to build
against modular X, and work with it, however there are likely still
some packages with broken dependencies that will turn up over time.

Third party packages out there will also likely need to be updated
still too.

Since this is the first time we'll be putting modular X out there for
the testerbase at large, we expect that a number of problems will be
discovered which have not been noticed with internal testing.

Bug reporting:
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If you encounter a video driver bug, or other software bug with
modular X, please report it directly to X.Org bugzilla, so that it
will get fixed before X11R7 is finalized.  When filing a bug to
X.org bugzilla, be sure to mark it as blocking bug "1690", which
is the X11R7 release blocker bug.  Bugs that are not blocking bug
1690 will get much lower priority and may fall between the cracks.

     http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component

If experiencing any video driver bugs, or system lockups, it is also
recommended to join the xorg(a)lists.freedesktop.org mailing list,
and discuss the problem there with upstream X.Org developers and other
users, as this is generally the fastest way to see bugs get fixed.


If you would like Red Hat to track a particular X.Org bug report
that you've filed upstream as requested above, please file
a tracking bug in Red Hat bugzilla, which has a brief description
of the problem, and a URL linking to the upstream X.Org bug, and
we will track the issue as well.

If you discover an rpm packaging bug, or an upgrade/downgrade related
bug that is likely specific to our packaging of modular X, rather
than being a general upstream modular X bug, then please file it in
Red Hat bugzilla against the "xorg-x11" component for now.


Important notes:
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When upgrading from monolithic xorg-x11 6.8.2 or older releases
using 'yum' from the commandline inside a terminal in X, you need to
restart the X server, or applications that use core fonts, will fail,
being unable to see any fonts.  The reason for this is that the
upgrade process must restart the xfs font server to ensure the new
xfs server is running after the upgrade, which causes the
xfs<->X server connection to be detached.  Alternatively,
users may want to try using "xset +fp "unix:/7100" ; xset fp rehash"
to attempt to reattach xfs to the running X server.  Restarting
the X server is the recommended method however, as you'll want to
be running/testing the new X server as well, and there are likely
to be other unexpected problems to not restarting the X server.