[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

Thu Dec 1 14:10:37 CET 2011

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
+