Jan de Groot wrote:
Well, I was thinking the same thing for Xorg 7.1/7.2 when Nvidia had these legacy drivers around. While I was updating things, I assumed nvidia would drop legacy support. In fact, they made a new release of the 71xx legacy drivers with Xorg 7.1/7.2 support. I see more problems
Hope it'll happen...
with fglrx though, as ATi has never been good with drivers and new technology (neither new X servers, neither new ATI cards are supported completely).
I would like to hear from a fglrx user to what extend or even if it works. For me the latest nvidia drivers are unacceptable as they lock my machine every couple of minutes. I've tried stripping every single feature off of my configuration but in the end nothing helped. So I am stuck using nv now which I guess is fine as 3D on X11 is rather useless most of the time anyway and I don't play games. ;)
IMHO we should not hold up development because of non-free programs. The IgnoreABI thing is something that "works", just like that harmless patch I added to GTK2 to get flashplayer working without assertions on Opera and Konqueror.
My thoughts exactly but like in our discussions about binaries using pkg-config --list-all on runtime, we'll get quite some negative feedback. heh Cheers, -F