Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed May 21 16:53:20 UTC 2008


2008/5/21 Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Bill Crawford

>> No, the point is that *the third party binary drivers* are *not yet
>> compatible with the new ABI*. Please stop throwing mud now.

> No mud slinging was intended sir.  How is this?

Much better, thanks. Sorry for sounding so personal, I just ... well,
this is more accurate :o)

I do understand the frustration (I've a couple of nv cards sitting at
home, waiting to go in a new machine; I'm hoping the nouveau project
will come up with something good for 3d before too long ...).

> Some hardware vendors, such as nVidia, have not yet provided drivers
> which are compatible with the new Xorg ABI shipped with Fedora 9.
> More information for nVidia users can be found here:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1653299&postcount=9
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1656695&postcount=54
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1659061&postcount=3




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