[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

[Donald Stewart]

On 29 November 2011 15:18, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> 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.
>

Does anyone have, or know of some data on the number of people that
still use pre Nvidia 6 series cards? And what the performance between
the Nvidia and nouveau drivers for those cards is?
Because, if not many people use them - and nouveau works well it isn't
really an issue, but if not, then surely we run the risk of the
drivers not being compatible in time for Mga 2, despite that being a
long way off. If memory serves, it took a very long time for the 96xx
driver to being made compatible a while back. But then again, its
Cauldron, so we should test and push forward......
> But at some point we really need to move on, as we cant wait forever.
>
> --
> Thomas