Latest revision as of 04:10, 12 November 2010

[edit] 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.

[edit] Basic upgrade

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Configuration

In order to configure devices that hotplugging does not handle, 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 configuration, you may use xorg without it.

[edit] Example config: keyboard with polish layout

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"keyboard-all"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"XkbRules"  "xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"  "pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout" "pl"

	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
EndSection

[edit] Known Issues

Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you have problems with new xorg-server. Also you can notice that some errors present even for working config and xorg, here is the possible:

[ 852.864] (EE)  ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

This error can be ignored but in order to have everything clean add this MatchDevicePath "/dev/inpute/event*" into your xorg.conf

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	    "evdev pointer catchall"
	Driver		    "evdev"
	MatchIsPointer      "on"
        MatchDevicePath     "/dev/input/evdev*"
EndSection