FC5 and Xorg 7.1 Current Status?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:15 -0700, alan wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:46 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
> >>
> >> There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the
> >> works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris
> >> last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
> >>
> >> Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which
> >> supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for
> >> the 'bling'.
> >
> > the board has decided that 7.1 was not appropriate for FC5.
> >
> > I doubt that that was based on Nvidia not having done something, so I
> > also doubt that that decision will change based on Nvidia doing
> > something else now....
> 
> The question I could never get an answer on was just how much needed to be 
> rebuilt to make it work. 

nothing except the drivers. that was so all the time and hasn't changed.