I see the official announcement of xorg server 1.18:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-November/002655.html
Anyone have any clues about when the final release will show up in fedora 23, and vastly more important, when nvidia binary drivers will show up now that 1.18 is official?
P.S. I'd vastly prefer to use the nouveau open source driver, but my maxwell card won't talk nouveau unless nvidia releases the firmware in some form nouveau can use, so I'm stuck waiting for nvidia either way :-).
On 11/11/15 10:12, Tom Horsley wrote:
I see the official announcement of xorg server 1.18:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-November/002655.html
Anyone have any clues about when the final release will show up in fedora 23, and vastly more important, when nvidia binary drivers will show up now that 1.18 is official?
P.S. I'd vastly prefer to use the nouveau open source driver, but my maxwell card won't talk nouveau unless nvidia releases the firmware in some form nouveau can use, so I'm stuck waiting for nvidia either way :-).
You should probably use https://www.changedetection.com and monitor http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for changes to see when they release a new driver. And then you can bug the folks at rpmfusion.
You should probably use https://www.changedetection.com and monitor http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for changes to see when they release a new driver. And then you can bug the folks at rpmfusion.
Ah-HA! A 352.63 driver just showed up on the nvidia site with this as one of the items added:
Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 20 (xorg-server 1.18).
So we just need rpmfusion to catch up now :-).
I see the official announcement of xorg server 1.18:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-November/002655.html
Anyone have any clues about when the final release will show up in fedora 23, and vastly more important, when nvidia binary drivers will show up now that 1.18 is official?
No idea.
P.S. I'd vastly prefer to use the nouveau open source driver, but my maxwell card won't talk nouveau unless nvidia releases the firmware in some form nouveau can use, so I'm stuck waiting for nvidia either way :-).
There is a guide to installing the NVidia drivers on Fedora 23. It involves back-reving xorg to 1.17. (1.18 is not stable using Nouveau drivers on my 2 gig NVidia card. I get some weird texture corruption.)
The install guide is at:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/
It worked pretty well for me. I did have to add --allowerasing on the command to back-rev xorg.
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:14:40 -0800 alan@clueserver.org wrote:
There is a guide to installing the NVidia drivers on Fedora 23. It involves back-reving xorg to 1.17.
I find the safest and easiest way to do this is keep my fedora 22 partition the default and wait for f23 to get all the support I need before switching :-).
On 11.11.2015, Tom Horsley wrote:
I find the safest and easiest way to do this is keep my fedora 22 partition the default and wait for f23 to get all the support I need before switching :-).
Yep! Have just reverted all four F23 machines to F22. Too many annoying bugs at the moment. Have left one F23 machine to test, though..
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:14:40 -0800 alan@clueserver.org wrote:
There is a guide to installing the NVidia drivers on Fedora 23. It involves back-reving xorg to 1.17.
I find the safest and easiest way to do this is keep my fedora 22 partition the default and wait for f23 to get all the support I need before switching :-).
I had already switched to Fedora 23 before I found out about the problem(s).
On 11.11.2015, alan@clueserver.org wrote:
I had already switched to Fedora 23 before I found out about the problem(s).
Me too. But I've always one machine left, in case of trouble. And I have complete backups of all machines, thus reverting to a previous state is just a matter of 30 minutes.
This time, I partially broke with old habits not to upgrade within the first four weeks. Should have known better...
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