On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:57 +0200, Alexander Baldeck wrote:
Hey all,
after reading a thread on the forums where a user posted that with -ignoreABI as a startup flag he could get the nvidia drivers working again, I had a second look.
It seems that nvidia 100.14.11-4 works with this workaround and I would expect nvidia to react to feature requests in the future - whenever that will be. Yet, I do see serious problems with us keeping the support for the legacy drivers enabled, as for me it sounds very unlikely that nvidia will touch the old drivers ever again. So just to get a discussion going about how to handle this I would raise a question.
Assuming nvidia doesn't fix their 71xx & 96xx series, will we either:
* feel forced to drop support for old cards or * will we have multiple xorg versions in our repositories?
Both "solutions" sound very bad to me...
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 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). 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.