Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Denis Leroy]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> Denis Leroy wrote:
>> Jason Tang wrote:
>>> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current
>>> nvidia drivers.  Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding
>>> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's
>>> confidence in the dev team.
>>
>> That's nothing new you know. Out of the 9 fedora releases, I think at 
>> least 8 out of 9 didn't work with the Nvidia driver at release time. 
>> however Nvidia is usually pretty good at playing catch up.
>>
>> I'm also hostage to Nvidia's good will for my Lenovo T61's Quadro 
>> chipset, and can't upgrade to F-9 until their next release (nv doesn't 
>> work at all on this chipset). I wouldn't go back to a Radeon chipset 
>> though, not until we have a working free equivalent (emphasis on 
>> 'working') to nvidia-settings for easy dual-head support... The good 
>> news is that with xrandr maturing, we're probably almost there.
>>
> Interesting...
> 
> I have no  "nv" problems on my  Lenovo T61p with Quadro FX570M.
> Running with no xorg.conf. ...
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_1536ec85-61c8-49d4-aeaa-3852a20d5d29

Hmm, mine is a NVS 140M. nv yields a black screen. Even if nv worked, 
it's unbearably slow and can't handle dual 1680x1050 screens. But I 
would never criticize the Xorg developers, the only culprit for nv being 
so bad is NVidia itself...