Ja sam prvi put testirao arch pre mozda godinu i po dana i imao sam gomilu losih iskustava. Hal mi nije prepoznao softkeys, touchpad i pored mnogo napora nisam mogao da konfigurisem, ocaj ocaja su bile performanse x3100 i pored toga sto mi se pacman, KISS i rolling release koncept mnogo svideo bio sam primoran da napustim arch jer je u to vreme bilo mnogo boljih resenja u mom slucaju.
Zavrteo sam ga ponovo iznerviran neozbiljnoscu ubuntu developera (imam svoje razloge) i to tacno na vreme kada je u repoe stigao xserver 1.6 . Heh, sve je proradilo iz prve a iskustvo koje sam pokupio kada sam ga prvi put instalirao mi je dosta pomoglo.
Za dva-tri meseca eksperimentisanja sa ovim distroom, lomljenja dep-ova, instaliranje sw iz source-a pa i bitnih sistemskih komponenti kao sto su xorg, mesa, kernel, video drajveri i jos gomila manje-vise nebitnog software-a (da cak i pored aur-a) i ovo cudoviste od distro-a radi neverovatno stabilno. Da ne bude da lazem ;-)
Code:
[combuster@vostro bin]$ ./Xorg -version
This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.
X.Org X Server 1.6.99.901 (1.7.0 RC 1)
Release Date: (unreleased)
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.31-DELL x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux vostro 2.6.31-DELL #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 10 09:39:12 CEST 2009 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/3e92ef55-6568-4851-abd7-449728a2a878 ro
Build Date: 16 September 2009 09:50:10AM
Current version of pixman: 0.17.1
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Code:
combuster@vostro bin]$ glxinfo | grep Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7-devel
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Code:
[combuster@vostro compile]$ ls xorg
bigreqsproto kbproto libXvMC proto xf86-input-evdev
compositeproto libX11 libXxf86vm pthread-stubs xf86-input-synaptics
damageproto libXau libfontenc randrproto xf86-video-intel
dri2proto libXdamage libpciaccess renderproto xf86dgaproto
drm libXext libxcb resourceproto xf86driproto
evieproto libXfixes libxkbfile scrnsaverproto xf86vidmodeproto
fixesproto libXfont libxtrans videoproto xkbcomp
fontsproto libXi macros x11proto xkeyboard-config
glproto libXinerama mesa xcmiscproto xserver
inputproto libXv pixman xextproto
Evo i podataka i ceo xorg git tree :)
Dakle dok god su neka osnovna pravila ispostovana (podesavanje korisnickih grupa, ispravno konfigurisan rc.conf i sl), arch je neverovatan rock-solid distro...
Kada budem imao vremena pozabavicu se malo sa tiling wm-ovima tipa xmonad, awesome, ratpoison ili recimo dwm pa cu preneti utiske.
make love - !war