[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

Wed Nov 30 00:12:36 CET 2011

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:18:29 +0200
+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.
+> 
+
+I using it on both nVidia and intel hardware, and seems to work
+nice.
+
+> 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.
+> 
+> --
+> Thomas
+
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