New X.Org Driver Updates Roll Out For Xorg-Server 1.19 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New X.Org Driver Updates Roll Out For Xorg-Server 1.19 Support

In addition to the Radeon and AMDGPU DDX updates yesterday, other X.Org drivers are seeing releases this week in order to support the brand new X.Org Server 1.19...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xorg-DDX-Server-1.19

[Ericg]

-modesetting have its own release already, or is it still MIA?

[Michael]

-modesetting have its own release already, or is it still MIA?

-modesetting is part of the X Server Git tree so should generally always be compatible.

[Ericg]

-modesetting is part of the X Server Git tree so should generally always be compatible.

Gotcha, thank ya!

[bwyan]

What is the most reasonable way to check which version I am currently using? "dpgk -l | grep xorg" gives me:

ii  python3-xkit                                0.5.0ubuntu2                                  all          library for the manipulation of xorg.conf files (Python 3)
ii  xorg                                        1:7.7+13ubuntu3                               amd64        X.Org X Window System
ii  xorg-docs-core                              1:1.7.1-1ubuntu1                              all          Core documentation for the X.org X Window System
ii  xserver-xorg                                1:7.7+13ubuntu3                               amd64        X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core                           2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.1                           amd64        Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                      1:7.7+13ubuntu3                               amd64        X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev                    1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2                             amd64        X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics                1.8.2-1ubuntu3                                amd64        Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse                  1:13.1.0-1ubuntu2                             amd64        X.Org X server -- VMMouse input driver to use with VMWare
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom                    1:0.32.0-0ubuntu3                             amd64        X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all                      1:7.7+13ubuntu3                               amd64        X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu                   1.2.0+git1611170732.a00032~gd~x               amd64        X.Org X server -- AMDGPU display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati                      1:7.8.0+git1611170732.5cbe1e~gd~x             amd64        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev                    1:0.4.4-1build5                               amd64        X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel                    2:2.99.917+git1611161932.a1a0f7~gd~x          amd64        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mach64                   6.9.5-1build2                                 amd64        X.Org X server -- ATI Mach64 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau                  1:1.0.13+git1610280732.1516d3~gd~x            amd64        X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-qxl                      0.1.4-3ubuntu3                                amd64        X.Org X server -- QXL display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-r128                     6.10.0-1build2                                amd64        X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon                   1:7.8.0+git1611170732.5cbe1e~gd~x             amd64        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa                     1:2.3.4-1build2                               amd64        X.Org X server -- VESA display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware                   1:13.1.0-2ubuntu3                             amd64        X.Org X server -- VMware display driver

[Krejzi]

What is the most reasonable way to check which version I am currently using? "dpgk -l | grep xorg" gives me:

By looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or systemd-journald (depends where X logs arer stored).

/usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[505]: X.Org X Server 1.18.99.902 (1.19.0 RC 2)
/usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[505]: Release Date: 2016-10-28

[timofonic]

What about OPTIMUS support? No more need of Bumblebee hack?

[dungeon]

What is the most reasonable way to check which version I am currently using? "dpgk -l | grep xorg" gives me:

I guess that would be something like

X -version

[stiiixy]

I'm still struggling to get my Radeon 7670 + i7 Ivy Bridge laptop to play nice on any distro. I just want one chip to work. The last year seems to have made my laptop pretty much useless for 3D without some hacking up of conf files etc (and even thats still not working properly). Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've been testing vanilla, Oibaf and Padoka PPA's, official and ubuntu mainline kernels without much success in any combination. Arch gave similarly crap results all of which were virtually 0.1 FPS. After killing the 3D app, the whole machine was still running slow until a hard reset.

[jaxxed]

-modesetting is part of the X Server Git tree so should generally always be compatible.

Is the libinput integration also in the git tree?