Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 21 16:27:26 UTC 2008


Bill Crawford wrote:
> 2008/5/21 Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com>:
> 
>> The version of the X server shipped with Fedora 9 comes with a new ABI
>> which is not yet compatible with some third party binary drivers such
>> as nVidia.
> 
> No, the point is that *the third party binary drivers* are *not yet
> compatible with the new ABI*. Please stop throwing mud now.

No, the point is that it is a pre-release version of X, shipped will 
full knowledge that it will break binary drivers that no reasonable 
person would expect to be modified to match yet.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com






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