Where does the livna repository fit in with FC9?

[Jim Cornette]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:04 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Christopher A. Williams
>>> <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I've been playing with the Livna Development repo and Rawhide. Still
>>>>  can't get the nVidia drivers to behave though.
>>> X has a new ABI in F9 (there is no such thing as FC9 - that's a pet
>>> peeve of mine), therefore the nVidia drivers don't work.  Go yell at
>>> nVidia :)
>>
>> I already knew about the new ABI in X on F9. One would think that if
>> there are apparently current nVidia drivers in a Rawhide oriented
>> development repo that they would use the new ABI. Otherwise, why waste
>> the space on a disk?
>>
>> Guess I assumed wrong and should have considered these drivers trash
>> from the start. So much for thinking they (the Livna maintainers) were
>> ahead of the game. To that end, I'm sure plenty of folks are already
>> yelling at nVidia, not that I won't join the chorus... :)
> 
> If the older proprietary drivers are broken with the new ABI, there is 
> nothing Livna maintainers can do as they don't have the rights to the 
> code to fix it. The open drivers like Intel work fine. So does the 2D nv 
> driver for that matter.
> 
> Rahul
> 

I could not get either nv or nouveau to work for a 7400 NVidia, only the 
VESA would work.
So these drivers are supposed to work? Thanks for the info.

Jim

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