Where does the livna repository fit in with FC9?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:04 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Christopher A. Williams
>> <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  I've been playing with the Livna Development repo and Rawhide. Still
>>>  can't get the nVidia drivers to behave though.
>> X has a new ABI in F9 (there is no such thing as FC9 - that's a pet
>> peeve of mine), therefore the nVidia drivers don't work.  Go yell at
>> nVidia :)
> 
> I already knew about the new ABI in X on F9. One would think that if
> there are apparently current nVidia drivers in a Rawhide oriented
> development repo that they would use the new ABI. Otherwise, why waste
> the space on a disk?
> 
> Guess I assumed wrong and should have considered these drivers trash
> from the start. So much for thinking they (the Livna maintainers) were
> ahead of the game. To that end, I'm sure plenty of folks are already
> yelling at nVidia, not that I won't join the chorus... :)

If the older proprietary drivers are broken with the new ABI, there is 
nothing Livna maintainers can do as they don't have the rights to the 
code to fix it. The open drivers like Intel work fine. So does the 2D nv 
driver for that matter.

Rahul