xorg patches

swagglepuff

I am curious as to how solus handles the xorg patches. Do the fine people wait for xorg to update or do they build the patches into their own xorg server like manjaro does. I ask this because the requirements for my hybrid system are going to be included in xorg 1.21.

DataDrake

swagglepuff We wait for the Xorg update. Rolling, not bleeding.

swagglepuff

DataDrake Sounds good, I will just have to suffer through windows till then. My pc works beautifully on solus except I cant use the 1660ti card with my extremely rare and odd amd/nvidia hybrid system. That has zero ability to be manually controlled in anyway, shape or form.

ctrl-linux-delete

How easy is it to build a package with additional patches applied? I've used debian systems before where it's fairly trivial; I just downloaded the source package, applied my patches and then rebuilt the debs. I really want to improve my hybrid experience but Xorg 1.21 doesn't have any sort of release date and if history tells us anything it could be months/years before a new release. I'm tempted to try other distributions which have it prebuilt, but I've become quite attached to Solus over the last year.

In short: I'm more than happy to build Xorg myself but would appreciate some hints on how packages for Solus are normally handled, especially patches.

Cheers.

viyoriya

ctrl-linux-delete search xorg related packages in repo in Dev Tracker.

for example :
https://dev.getsol.us/source/xorg-server/browse/master/package.yml
the above one is xorg-server and with paches details.

if you need a list of all the packages for X system follow the linuxfromscratch
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/installing.html

and you need system-packages and related *-devel to compile the source code. If you really wanna try then i can share my batch files to you.

Edit : Solus X systems are latest packages you no need download and compile yourself

ctrl-linux-delete

viyoriya thanks, that's what I needed. I was able to apply the patches and rebuild xorg-server. After some tweaking and editing of the X11 config files I've now got the Nvidia prime render offload working!!! This makes my workflow so much easier and it seems to work reasonably well. As an aside I tested on a steam game and the Heaven benchmark.

😂

youswer

viyoriya my batch files to you.

Hey. Could you share with me?
Very interesting to try.
And I have little experience in compiling.
My mail: youswer79@gmail.com

viyoriya

youswer sure compiling kernel 5.3.2 now .once done will share all the batch file 🙂..

viyoriya

youswer here is the link https://github.com/viyoriya/lfs_9
Linux Kernel 5.3.2 + runit + Xorg

Hope it make you busy for a week 😀