Reasons for hall monitoring

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sun May 9 21:24:42 UTC 2010


On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 02:10 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>> We do not and should never support proprietary drivers. Please NEVER
>> withhold a new version of X.Org X11 just because proprietary drivers don't
>> support it!
>>
>
> It might not be obvious but doing so is very counter productive even for
> those users wanting to use proprietary drivers.  Nvidia doesn't update
> their driver everytime there is a new Xorg release.  They wait for a
> major distribution to include it first.

Not that I disagree with your post (or Kevin's) but this is (no
longer) true, NVIDIA does (try) to follow xserver releases.
AMD is not; they have a selected list of distributions that they
support, Fedora is *not* one of them.


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