Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Wed May 21 16:44:22 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Bill Crawford
<billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/21 Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com>:
>
>> The version of the X server shipped with Fedora 9 comes with a new ABI
>> which is not yet compatible with some third party binary drivers such
>> as nVidia.
>
> No, the point is that *the third party binary drivers* are *not yet
> compatible with the new ABI*. Please stop throwing mud now.

No mud slinging was intended sir.  How is this?

Some hardware vendors, such as nVidia, have not yet provided drivers
which are compatible with the new Xorg ABI shipped with Fedora 9.
More information for nVidia users can be found here:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1653299&postcount=9
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1656695&postcount=54
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1659061&postcount=3




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