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diff --git a/metadata/news/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt b/metadata/news/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a275ec14d719..000000000000 --- a/metadata/news/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha/2009-07-12-xorg-74-alpha.en.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -Title: xorg-x11-7.4 and xorg-server-1.5 kernel support -Author: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org> -Content-Type: text/plain -Posted: 2009-07-12 -Revision: 1 -News-Item-Format: 1.0 -Display-If-Installed: x11-base/xorg-server -Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha -Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha - -Recent versions of xorg's X11 require kernel support to access PCI and AGP -graphic cards. This support has only recently been added to the Linux kernel -(sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.30 and sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5). -Thus, you will need to run a recent enough kernel to use recent versions of X11 -on an alpha. If you only start programs on your alpha, but the display is on -another machine, no upgrade is necessary. - -Furthermore, not all graphics card drivers have been updated to work with the -newer X server API. One example is the glint driver used for Permedia cards. The -upstream developers have been informed about this, but no fixes are available -yet, please see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546 - -For a general guide to upgrading to Xorg 1.5, see the Gentoo upgrade guide: -http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml |