On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:07 +0200, dragoran wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 06:33 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> As long as I have the ability to do so, I pledge to do my part to make
>> sure proprietary software of _ANY_ kind, drivers or otherwise, does
>> not hold open source software users hostage or delay or restrict
>> open source software promulgation.
>>
>> I kindof feel like staying up all night tonight now, and releasing 7.1
>> for FC5 on Wednesday.
>>
>
> Even though I'm an avid nVidia user and most likely X11R7.1 update will
> most likely break my Quake4 habits, I second the above.
> Fedora must not be held hostage by nVidia's release schedule.
> nVidia had two full months to prepare for this release... more then
> enough.
>
> Bring it on!
> /me rush to finish Q4 before all hell breaks lose...
>
> Gilboa
>
>
>
you can use the nvidia driver with xorg-7.1 if you disable renderaccel
and add --ignore-abi to the X command line.
I know, Thanks.
There's a thread about it in nvnews support forum.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70476&highlight=7.1
BTW, I posted a message in same forum about Fedora's pending X.org
release... hopefully, someone @nvidia wakes up.
Gilboa