- Subject: Re: nvidia for F9
- From: Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:31:37 -0400
- In-reply-to: <bd2e4b170805151621n7cfc6408y1ca2432d1ad4479d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:21 -0500, Erich Zigler wrote:
> Which makes it all the more frustrating that F9 shipped this
> particular Xorg server that keeps many individuals from running this
> version of Fedora.
>
> It is unknown when exactly Xorg 1.5 will be released and how long it
> will take the video card manufacturers to release the proper drivers.
> And with a new release every 6 months my initiative to perform a
> upgrade drops as more time passes.
>
> Granted, this wouldn't be an issue if they would release the drivers
> as OSS, but it also wouldn't be an issue if F9 didn't ship this
> particular Xorg. :)
Is there some pressing reason to install a version of Xorg that breaks
stuff? Someone mentioned that the kernel is to blame as well?? If I
can't get my nVidia card running full blast, I cannot install F9 as my
Devel work demands much of libGL. Hopefully Rahul will give us the
complete skinny. Ric
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