Nvidia driver and Xorg

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Wed Dec 31 20:48:19 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 08:19 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Nvidia driver and Xorg
> From: epate <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org>
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: 12/31/2008 08:09 AM
> 
> > 
> > I can start X manually with "startx -- -ignoreABI" but I was
> wondering if there was way to make this the default (ie. something in
> xorg.conf)?  Or will this probably be fixed in a subsequent update?
> > 
> 
> nVidia has to update their driver to the new ABI version. Fedora can and 
> will do nothing to fix this in an xorg-x11-server-Xorg update.

Well, sure.  But if there's a workaround that we can apply ourselves to
get X to start with -ignoreABI, that would help.  And if it's part of
packaging to get it to start with -ignoreABI, then maybe RPMforge guys
could fix it there while we wait for nVidia.

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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