From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: poor scrolling in qemu-kvm Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:28:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9xhu25g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tolwwwt.fsf@gnu.org> <20141129212017.GA25852@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XupZl-0008NH-AT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:29:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XupZf-0007Pe-4M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:29:09 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:43824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XupZe-0007PY-UC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:29:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20141129212017.GA25852@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 29 Nov 2014 22:20:17 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: Guix-devel , Federico Beffa Andreas Enge skribis: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Long story short: we just need to update MESA to use the newer libdrm, >> and we should be able to fix that. >> Would you like to try? :-) > > I did try to update mesa, which was the source of some new packages in the > xorg module. However, if I remember correctly, a newer mesa would essenti= ally > force us to upgrade all of our X. And so far, the policy has been to stay= with > the releases stable R7.7. Just as a warning that by upgrading something, = you > may be in for upgrading a lot, which we might not wish to do. Oh, right. OTOH the real R7.7 is getting old, no? Should we really wait for the next big joint release? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.