The new X.org X11 implementation, has now been put in rawhide (was Re: Xorg server)

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 15:41 -0500, Doug Stewart wrote:

> Will Backman wrote:
> | On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 15:33, Doug Stewart wrote:
> |
> |
> |>What about those using nVidia/ATI binary drivers?  What will the
> |>implications be for 3d acceleration?

> Shazbot!
> 
> Anyone contacted nVidia about morphing their drivers to fit X.org's server?
> 
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> Doug Stewart
> Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
> Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

I am also very interested in this since I game religiously.

There has been some mention of this on the www.nvnews.net forums; no
official reply or statement that I have seen however.  nVIDIA is aware
of the future problem, but some additional mention of it to them would
not hurt.  I believe one 'unofficial' type statement was that the
drivers should port very quickly due to the similar architecture,
whereas the Xserver implementation would not port easily.

The best we can do for now is to install the xorg- packages and go for
it... then let them know what breaks and why.  The primary contact email
for nVIDIA for this would be linux-bugs at nvidia.com; the linux driver
forum at www.nvnews.net would be a good place to discuss this publicly
(as well as here of course, but there are more distributions moving to
XOrg than Fedora).
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

I will be testing it as soon as my finals are over this week.  Spring
break with xorg... I expect some problems and very little room to fix
them.
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to do nothing." (Edmond Burke)

Andrew Farris, CPE major
California Polytechnic University, SLO
fedora at andrewfarris.com