FC5 and Xorg 7.1 Current Status?

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at mn.rr.com
Thu Aug 24 23:55:00 UTC 2006


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:46 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just curious on the current status of Xorg 7.1 for FC5.
>>
>> There are various posts on various forums suggesting that it is "in the 
>> works" without a defined time frame, though comments from Mike Harris 
>> last month on FCP implying a desire to do it sooner than later.
>>
>> Now that nVidia has released a new driver version today (8774) which 
>> supports 7.1, it would be nice to test the functionality available for 
>> the 'bling'.
> 
> the board has decided that 7.1 was not appropriate for FC5.

Thanks Arjan.

> I doubt that that was based on Nvidia not having done something, so I
> also doubt that that decision will change based on Nvidia doing
> something else now....

I would not have thought so, in either case.

My expectations were not set by nVidia's release schedule but by Mike's 
comments.

Thanks for the clarification.  I'll wait until FC6 is released.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz





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