Backporting some F9 packages to F8

[Joshua C.]

I have ati RS485 (Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP) and it has lots of issues with the
fglrx. In partucular the fglrx has problems with the 2.6.25 kernel. I tried
the f9 live-kde system and used the xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.192-rc2. See my
post here http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11148**
Now everything is ok but I still have f8 because of the kde. I'm waiting for
the 4.1 release.
In the mean time I decided to recompile the xorg-server-1.4.99-902 for f8
but it has so many dependancies. So i gave up.
And there are other packages (in connection with xorg-server) that has to be
recompiled for the f8.

So I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to do such backporting. if you
really want to try it, here is the list of the packages that I tried with
the f9-live:
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386
mesa-libGLU-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386
mesa-libOSMesa-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386
mesa-dri-drivers-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386

glx-utils-7.1-0.37.fc9.i386

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-18.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-15.20080404.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9.i386

I don't know. It is so much work in order to make the latest ati driver work
in the f8 and have dri and 3d.




2008/6/30 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>:

> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 11:28 +0200, Joshua C. wrote:
> > Can someone backport some of the F9 packages to F8? Especially some of
> > the following:
> > <snip>
> > mesa
> > xorg-x11-drv-ati
>
> We typically do not do wholesale upgrades of drivers in older releases.
> There's just too much churn happening to keep up with it.  Mesa is
> particularly problematic since it has complex build interdependencies
> with the X server itself.  I hope to be able to change this stance at
> sonme point in the future, but F9 is really the first release where I
> might feel comfortable starting to do that.
>
> If you have specific problems that are fixed by updating to newer
> packages, we can investigate either backporting the fixes or updating
> the driver.
>
> - ajax
>
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