How is the X upgrade going?

[Jon Nettleton]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 12:16 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 13:43 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > I've fallen off the rawhide train in the last few weeks - wanting to
> > miss the well-publicized X fun, among other things.  I'm setting up a
> > new machine, though, so I thought I'd put current rawhide on it just to
> > see what happened.
> > 
> > What happens is that the system appears to boot mostly normally.  At the
> > end, though, I get an all-blank screen (either black or white, seems to
> > vary) with an arrow-shaped pointer and nothing else.  The pointer is
> > responsive to the mouse, so there appears to be a functioning X server
> > underneath it all.  But I never get the login screen.
> > 
> > This is a Dell box with integrated Intel graphics; it works great with
> > F8.
> > 
> > Is this something I should still be expecting at this stage, or is this
> > supposed to work?  If so, what other information can I provide to help
> > track it down?
> 
> That's almost certainly gdm's fault, not mine.
> 
> I've been a bit behind in updating some of the more fringe drivers, as
> I've been trying to get something close to code-complete for some RANDR
> enhancements.  I'll likely make a pass through them this week or next,
> as well as start enabling the input hotplug funhouse.

I am almost finished with the openchrome driver.  Maybe tonight or
tomorrow I will get the experimental branch at openchrome.org updated.
Then I will get Xavier to push a new package.

Jon