Re: What version of Xorg?



On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:53:21 -0000 Warren Block <wblock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> My previous Slackware 11.0 has Xorg version 6.9.0. I can see from the x.org
|> web site the latest version is 7.3 and 7.4 is coming. I upgraded Slackware
|> to version 12.0 and it seems Xorg now reports version 1.3.0 instead of an
|> expected value in the 6.9 to 7.4 range. Anyone know WTF is that?
|
| It's the version of xorg-server. According to
|
| http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases/7.3
|
| xorg-server 1.4 goes with Xorg 7.3. So you have 7.2.

So why does it not just say I have 7.2? Or why doesn't the web site say
that 1.4 is the current version?

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