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Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 07:33:56 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Ralf Ertzinger pisze:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:13:16 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote
>>>> xorg-x11-server-1.4.99.1-0.23.20080222.fc9
>>> gdm comes up, but any mouse movement causes X to die (touchpad, radeon
>>> driver). Using startx ended up with white screen of death
>>
>> Works for me (intel driver), but I have DRI disabled (for other reasons).
> 
> I'm curious about Xorg stability with my nVidia card running on 
> nvidia-96xx closed driver (if supported, I hope so).
> 
> I'm just afraid of upgrade'ing to rawhide.
> 
> Any up-to-date LiveCD available? I'm curious about KDE4 on Fedora too :) .
> 

You will have no 3d support on an nvidia card with rawhide.  The best you get is 
software indirect rendering, which won't handle much beyond glxgears 
(compiz-fusion for instance won't work).

The nvidia drivers do not support the new Xorg ABI and will not for awhile still.

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