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Revision as of 23:50, 6 November 2010

Contents

Before upgrade

  • Backup your /etc/X11 directory.
  • Backup the old versions of xorg-server and drivers. This can be done with quickpkg.
  • xorg-server supports hot plugging through the event interface so ensure the evdev driver is enabled in INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf.

Basic upgrade

  1. Read and follow Gentoo's Xorg-server 1.8 Upgrade Guide
  2. Read Gentoo's Xorg-server 1.9 Upgrade Guide

After upgrade

  • Rebuild all drivers with new xorg-server, you may use qlist from portage-utils in order to get list of installed drivers:
    emerge -1 $(qlist -IC x11-drivers/) -av


Configuration

In order to config inputs you may use /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d instead of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. xorg.conf is optional and if you don't need any special config, you may use xorg without it.

Example config: keyboard with polish charset

Code: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf 
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"keyboard-all"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"XkbRules"  "xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"  "pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout" "pl"

	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
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