X.org X11 6.8.2rc1 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.901) release candidate 1 now in Fedora Development for testing

[Mike A. Harris]

X.Org X11 6.8.2rc1 a.k.a 6.8.1.901 is now in Fedora Development 
(rawhide) for testing.  This new X11 test release is from the stable 
bugfix-only 6.8-branch of X.Org X11 CVS.  The new release fixes a large 
number of bugs in 6.8.1 which have been reported since it was released, 
including fixes to the X server, radeon and other drivers, and addition 
of PCI IDs of some newer hardware.

This is strictly a bug fix only release, and contains no new major 
features.  If you experienced a bug in X.Org 6.8.1 or earlier which is 
still present in the currently shipping Fedora Core xorg-x11 update, you 
may want to install this release candidate to see if your bug may have 
been fixed.

For a complete list of the specific issues that have been fixed in the 
new release, I refer you to the X.org CVS changelog (xc/ChangeLog) in 
the X.Org source code, and the Red Hat rpm spec file changelog.  This is 
the only location the changes are documented in, so read these 2 places 
if you want to know the details, as this is the only locations the 
changes are documented.

After upgrading to test the new release, if you experience any new bugs 
or regressions, please be sure to file them in X.Org's official 
bugzilla, which is located at:

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

Be sure to indicate in your bug report the version of Fedora Core you 
are using, and the specific xorg-x11 rpm version-release from rawhide, 
which can be obtained by running "rpm -q xorg-x11".  Also, make sure you 
attach your X server log and config file to the bug report as single 
uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment 
interface.  If your problem is lockup/crash related, or DRI/AGP related, 
also attach your complete /var/log/messages from the time of boot 
onward, so there is sufficient information present in the bug report for 
an initial analysis.

If you experience any problems that are related specifically to the rpm 
packaging of xorg-x11, and not the software itself, please file them in 
Red Hat bugzilla instead, in the "xorg-x11" component.


SPECIAL NOTES:
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1) Someone has reported a bug already, in which after upgrading to the 
new X.Org, their config file was renamed from xorg.conf to 
xorg.conf.backup.  If this happens for you, just rename it back to 
xorg.conf and it should work as before.  Don't report this bug in 
bugzilla again, as we already know about it and will be investigating it 
shortly.

2) Compatibility with 3rd party and proprietary video drivers:  This 
release of X.Org is believed to be 100% ABI compatible with 6.8.1.  As 
such, proprietary and other 3rd party drivers should function with this 
test release if they worked with 6.8.1.  One important thing to note 
however, is that various 3rd party driver installation mechanisms such 
as Nvidia's proprietary driver installer, improperly overwrite X.Org 
supplied files which are managed by RPM in Fedora Core.

When you upgrade X.Org via rpm, some of the 3rd party driver files (most 
noteably libGL and libglx.a for Nvidia) will probably be overwritten by 
the new X.Org supplied files in rpm format.  The simplest solution to 
this problem, is to obtain your Nvidia or ATI proprietary drivers in RPM 
format from:

     http://www.livna.org.

Alternatively, you can redownload the driver again from wherever you got 
it the first time, and reinstall it.

If you experience any problems with unsupported 3rd party drivers, 
report them directly to the vendor who supplied the drivers, not to Red 
Hat.  In the extremely unlikely event the X server module ABI has 
changed unexpectedly, if you experience proprietary driver problems with 
the new X server which you believe may be due to accidental regression 
in the X server, report it to X.Org in the http://bugs.freedesktop.org
bugzilla, so the issue can be investigated before the 6.8.2 release 
finalizes.

3) If you experience ANY problems that you are planning on filing in any 
bugzilla, make sure you query that bugzilla's both open and closed bugs 
to see if the issue has already been reported.  Quite often people don't 
do this critical step and an issue ends up being reported a large number 
of times, which wastes developers time closing duplicates that they 
could be spending fixing bugs.

On behalf of Red Hat, as well as X.Org, I would like to thank all of the 
brave beta testers out there in advance for testing this new X.Org 
stable release candidate.  Enjoy.