[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

Thu Dec 1 14:15:00 CET 2011

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.
+