Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Naheem Zaffar]

I think it also needs to be made clear that free drivers shipped with
Fedora DO work.

so something along the lines of:

*Proprietary (third party) video drivers*

Fedora ships a pre-release of the next version of the xorg which has a
new ABI. All drivers contained within fedora have been ported to use
this ABI and mostly work as expected. However, third part drivers from
some vendors (AMD and nVidia) have not yet been made compatible with
this new xorg ABI.

If your use of the computer depends on these proprietary drivers, then
you are strongly advise to either not upgrade to Fedora 9 yet, exclude
xorg\* packages from upgrade (when using yum upgrade), or downgrade
your xorg\* packages back to those in Fedora 8 after installation
(when using upgrade from DVD).

(second para mostly taken as is from Matej Cepl's email.)

(as for status of fglrx, it has a new release yesterday, but it seems
only compatibility for the kernel 2.6.25 was added, not the new xorg
ABI)