FC5 and Xorg 7.1 Current Status?

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi all,

Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.

There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the 
works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris 
last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.

Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which 
supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for 
the 'bling'.

Any updates?

Thanks,

Marc Schwartz

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:46 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
>  
>  There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the 
>  works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris 
>  last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
>  
>  Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which 
>  supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for 
>  the 'bling'. 
the board has decided that 7.1 was not appropriate for FC5.

I doubt that that was based on Nvidia not having done something, so I
also doubt that that decision will change based on Nvidia doing
something else now....

[Alan]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>  On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:46 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
> >
> > There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the
> > works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris
> > last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
> >
> > Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which
> > supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for
> > the 'bling'.
>
>  the board has decided that 7.1 was not appropriate for FC5.
>
>  I doubt that that was based on Nvidia not having done something, so I
>  also doubt that that decision will change based on Nvidia doing
>  something else now.... 
The question I could never get an answer on was just how much needed to be 
rebuilt to make it work.  I expect more than people wanted to admit.  I 
could see the screaming if 7.1 needed to have new gtk and qt and kde and 
on and on...

Aren't library dependancies fun?

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[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:15 -0700, alan wrote:
>  On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>  
>  > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:46 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>  >> Hi all,
>  >>
>  >> Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
>  >>
>  >> There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the
>  >> works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris
>  >> last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
>  >>
>  >> Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which
>  >> supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for
>  >> the 'bling'.
>  >
>  > the board has decided that 7.1 was not appropriate for FC5.
>  >
>  > I doubt that that was based on Nvidia not having done something, so I
>  > also doubt that that decision will change based on Nvidia doing
>  > something else now....
>  
>  The question I could never get an answer on was just how much needed to be 
>  rebuilt to make it work.  
nothing except the drivers. that was so all the time and hasn't changed.

[Marc Schwartz]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>  On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:46 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
> >
> > There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the 
> > works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris 
> > last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
> >
> > Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which 
> > supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for 
> > the 'bling'.
>  
>  the board has decided that 7.1 was not appropriate for FC5. 
Thanks Arjan.

>  I doubt that that was based on Nvidia not having done something, so
> I
>  also doubt that that decision will change based on Nvidia doing
>  something else now.... 
I would not have thought so, in either case.

My expectations were not set by nVidia's release schedule but by Mike's 
comments.

Thanks for the clarification.  I'll wait until FC6 is released.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Marc Schwartz wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
>  
>  There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the
>  works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris
>  last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
>  
>  Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which
>  supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for
>  the 'bling'.
>  
>  Any updates?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Marc Schwartz
>   
Marc,

This has happened before with Fedora. I believe between Fedora 2 and 3
xorg 6.9 came out as well as the Firefox 1.0.2 -> 1.5 change and the
only way to get them was via external repos or wait for the upgrade to
the next core release.

FC6 is coming along nicely, and is due in Oct. If you really want the
bling upgrade and want to give back and do some testing I would
recommend upgrading. I'm using rawhide and it runs very nice.

Kevin

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