[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

JA Magallon jamagallon at ono.com
Wed Nov 30 00:24:20 CET 2011


On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:58:18 +0000
Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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......

Sorry, just to make my mind clear, what is the problem with GF 6 series ?
Nouveau not working but from GF7 and up, or propietary not working in 6 ?

Beacuse if it is the later, the standard nvidia current driver supports
series 6 and up. The legacy drivers are required only for 5(FX) and below.


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