Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Fri May 23 13:10:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it also needs to be made clear that free drivers shipped with
> Fedora DO work.
>
> so something along the lines of:
>
> *Proprietary (third party) video drivers*
>
> Fedora ships a pre-release of the next version of the xorg which has a
> new ABI. All drivers contained within fedora have been ported to use
> this ABI and mostly work as expected. However, third part drivers from
> some vendors (AMD and nVidia) have not yet been made compatible with
> this new xorg ABI.
>
> If your use of the computer depends on these proprietary drivers, then
> you are strongly advise to either not upgrade to Fedora 9 yet, exclude
> xorg\* packages from upgrade (when using yum upgrade), or downgrade
> your xorg\* packages back to those in Fedora 8 after installation
> (when using upgrade from DVD).
>
> (second para mostly taken as is from Matej Cepl's email.)
>
> (as for status of fglrx, it has a new release yesterday, but it seems
> only compatibility for the kernel 2.6.25 was added, not the new xorg
> ABI)

Guys, its a wiki, go to it!




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list