[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

[Donald Stewart]

On 1 December 2011 13:10, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
> On 29.11.2011 17:18, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> Colin Guthrie skrev 29.11.2011 16:04:
>>> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 29/11/11 13:21 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> Colin Guthrie skrev 29.11.2011 13:53:
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, spoke with Bastien and he pointed me at the fixes (on the Xserver
>>>>> side).
>>>>>
>>>>> Will push them through shortly (tho' to the xserver 1.11 in
>>>>> core/updates_testing only)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think we should push xserver 1.11 into /release _now_ so it gets
>>>> proper testing time from all users before Alpha 2 is released.
>>>
>>> I'm happy with that but as I don't keep up to date with the binary
>>> driver stuff I don't know the impact.
>>>
>>> Anssi, can you give your €0.02?
>>>
>>
>> fglrx is ok as of fglrx-8.911-1.mga2.nonfree
>>
>> nvidia-current should be ok afaik.
>>
>> nvidia173 and nvidia96xx need to be checked,
>> as Anssi noted on Nov. 6th that they didn't support it yet then,
>> and iirc there has been no new driver release since.
>>
>> But at some point we really need to move on, as we cant wait forever.
>
> Agreed, I say go for 1.11.
>
> nvidia96xx actually wasn't enabled on mga1, I was a bit surprised when
> nvidia later added 1.10 support into it.
>
> And nvidia173 is only needed for FX series, which is relatively uncommon
> (when compared to other series).
>
> --
> Anssi Hannula

Then go for it, testing makes sense especially as the adversely
affected user set seems small.