[Mageia-dev] xserver 1.11

Wed Nov 30 00:17:43 CET 2011

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:12:36 +0100
+JA Magallon <jamagallon at ono.com> wrote:
+
+> 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.
+> > 
+
+BTW, there is a new relase for current driver, 290.10.
+
+> > But at some point we really need to move on, as we cant wait forever.
+> > 
+> > --
+> > Thomas
+> 
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