Fix PKGBUILD bug for Garuda Linux, CachyOS, and other variants so we can show up in pacman for install

[HaplessIdiot]

chaotic-aur/packages#3684 we are very close to getting adoption from Garuda Linux with Chaotic AUR. I reached out to xiota and he wanted to know when the xlibre-server-git AUR package maintainer can get it working to fix the bug they found in that issue. It's impacting basically any normal arch distro in the same way too.

The issue is that after building and installing you have to run libtool after installation or it will still refuse to use amdgpu or any new ABI modules. We can resolve these issues and then get wider adoption if we can get it to install with just a single command.

[HaplessIdiot]

It works great with Garuda so far in x11 plasma

[callmetango]

@HaplessIdiot We have just created a discussion thread for screenshots of XLibre at wort at Liberated Screens · X11Libre · Discussion #211. Would you like to share you screenshot there and link back to your post here?

[callmetango]

@HaplessIdiot Could you please answer my question above? And in the meantime I've got another question: You are using Garuda Linux, right? Do you use X11Libre/pkgbuilds-arch-based or AUR (en) - xlibre-server to install XLibre on it?

[HaplessIdiot]

Here is another issue for the non git version with more of xiotas feedback. chaotic-aur/packages#3704 (comment) This issue is to reference all xlibre-* packages not just the git versions because unfortunately those also have similar issues installing. If you have ANY xorg packages installed before hand they must all be removed prior to installation or you can again get ABI mismatch. pacman and yay doesnt force you to uninstall xorg to use xlibre so it can be a frustrating experience finding all the xorg packages to remove and replace.

[callmetango]

Thank you for your work and feedback. This will be moved to X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub since maintaining packages is out of scope of the XLibre development.

[callmetango]

Ps. I would like to apologize if my comment has led to misunderstandings. The issue (now discussion) was part of the Xserver project and I just wanted to separate the issues that are not directly related to this one specific Xserver project. There was no intention to belittle anyone or their work.

On the contrary: contributions and maintainence for packages for distributions are very welcome! We will soon provide a special section in the discussions for this purpose and promote further contributions. See Consolidate support for packaging XLibre by our community - X11Libre - Discussion #101.

[callmetango]

@artist4artix CC

[metux]

Thank you for your work and feedback. This will be moved to X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub since maintaining packages is out of scope of the XLibre development.

Note, since some might get this wrong.

Of course any help on getting Xlibre into distros is highly appreciated. But this specific repo here is for the Xserver itself, so not the right place for this particular topic. Discussions instead are a good place for that. For some distros we already have specific repos - please file applicable tickets there.

https://github.com/X11Libre/ports-artix
https://github.com/X11Libre/ports-gentoo

If anybody wants to work on another distro and needs a ports-* repo, just let me know.

thanks.

[HaplessIdiot]

Thank you for your work and feedback. This will be moved to X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub since maintaining packages is out of scope of the XLibre development.

Note, since some might get this wrong.

Of course any help on getting Xlibre into distros is highly appreciated. But this specific repo here is for the Xserver itself, so not the right place for this particular topic. Discussions instead are a good place for that. For some distros we already have specific repos - please file applicable tickets there.

https://github.com/X11Libre/ports-artix https://github.com/X11Libre/ports-gentoo

If anybody wants to work on another distro and needs a ports-* repo, just let me know.

thanks.

The best news is that the chaotic AUR is already down to add the xlibre-* packages as an install candidate when the package mantainer for the AUR can update it to actually remove the Xorg files by itself. It should be able to install just with yay no extra steps and thats a reasonable ask. They werent completely against using the x11 plasma session by default on the main build of Garuda Linux when I asked on telegram. However, they need it to stop crashing on all and future versions of the NVIDIA prop driver. They also wanna see more than a smoother frame time graph to make it default to x11libre kde plasma on garuda linux over wayland KDE plasma. There arent enough feature improvements yet over normal X at this time. xiota said he was going to wait approx 3 months since that should be about how long it takes for things to mature to the point for that to possibly take place.

[artist4xlibre]

I tested the PKGBUILD process for xlibre-xserver - 25.0.0.4 now - and 20 drivers on a Garuda vm, and they all build ok.
Some deps need to be installed of course and a few pkgs removed manually.
All I did notice after reboot is a mouse pointer that is different in shape.
I'll need to complete the doc and then push it to the xlibre repo pkgbuilds-arch-based

[artist4xlibre]

These PKGBUILD files and procedure are ready for testing: https://github.com/X11Libre/pkgbuilds-arch-based

[callmetango]

Very nize! 👏

[artist4xlibre]

Has anybody already tested this?

[callmetango]

Yes, please see https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/211#discussioncomment-13947602 . Your packages just worked for him. And I'd like to say: Thank you for all your effort you put into this!

[callmetango]

A question: Did you test them on CachyOS as well? Or do you have any feedback of someone who did?

[artist4xlibre]

@callmetango Xlibre now has our own packages - with the correct names - in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=xlibre-x

Also, this repo has now been added by metux and populated by me: https://github.com/X11Libre/binpkg-arch-based
This as a replacement for my one.