xorg 7.1

Lukas Sabota punkrockguy318 at comcast.net
Sat Aug 26 03:55:20 BST 2006


On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 15:01 -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
> On 8/19/06, Xavier Dectot <xavier.dectot at free.fr> wrote:
> > 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 ?
> >
> 
> We cannot allow non-free software to hold back the adoption of new
> technology. Xorg 7.1 has many improvements and fixes for other users,
> we shouldn't punish them because nVidia is too lazy to recompile their
> driver.
> 

Nvidia released a new version of their drivers which supports 7.1.  Some
other cool improvements have been made as well.

God bless,
Lukas




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