Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Wed May 21 19:06:07 UTC 2008


Denis Leroy wrote:
> Jason Tang wrote:
>> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current
>> nvidia drivers.  Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding
>> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's
>> confidence in the dev team.
>
> That's nothing new you know. Out of the 9 fedora releases, I think at 
> least 8 out of 9 didn't work with the Nvidia driver at release time. 
> however Nvidia is usually pretty good at playing catch up.
>
> I'm also hostage to Nvidia's good will for my Lenovo T61's Quadro 
> chipset, and can't upgrade to F-9 until their next release (nv doesn't 
> work at all on this chipset). I wouldn't go back to a Radeon chipset 
> though, not until we have a working free equivalent (emphasis on 
> 'working') to nvidia-settings for easy dual-head support... The good 
> news is that with xrandr maturing, we're probably almost there.
>
Interesting...

I have no  "nv" problems on my  Lenovo T61p with Quadro FX570M.
Running with no xorg.conf. ...
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_1536ec85-61c8-49d4-aeaa-3852a20d5d29

( Of course 3D aint working but who's using it anyway and certainly 50% 
of Fedora's users as some claim )

JB. ...




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