xorg 7.1

[Xavier Dectot]

Le Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:01:00 -0400,
John Richard Moser <nigelenki at comcast.net> a écrit :

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> Hervé Fache wrote:
> > I do hope so: 7.0 has a buggy via driver that crashes X on video
> > window resize (xine, kaffeine). My EPIA box is running 7.1
> > (recompiled latest via driver from git) with no crash.
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> I stopped using the driver because it hard-locks the system on i386.
> Maybe I'll try it out again, I have to reboot soon anyway.

There is one big drawback at using 7.1. Up to now, the proprietary
nvidia drivers are not compatible with the revised Xorg API, so if
nvidia doesn't release a post 8762 version, I wwould think it unwise to
stay with 7.1. I know it's hard to postpone the adoption of free
software because of a proprietary driver problem, but can we really
leave the nvidia users without 3D acceleration ?