X.org driver updates PPA

John Dong john.dong at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 15:20:24 BST 2009


On 4/29/09 10:11 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 21:32 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>    
>> A little Jaunty Release Day present from the Ubuntu-X team.  :-)
>>
>>  From past releases, we know that often people want a way to try out
>> newer drivers than were included in the official release.  To make life
>> a little easier, we've put together a PPA with some newer X drivers:
>>
>>    https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/
>>
>> You can see that already we have new stable versions of nearly all the
>> major video drivers for your video-ing pleasure.
>>
>> I can't promise that we'll be keeping it up to date or fixing bugs, but
>> we'll do what we can.  We're going to treat it as a "stable" PPA, and
>> only post stuff we feel is likely to be better in some respect than
>> what's in the release.
>>      
>
> That is great, thanks!
>
> Are there any plans on updating the Nouveau driver with that PPA?
>
> Marc.
>
>
>
>    
It seems like the build of xserver-xorg-input-synaptic in the x-updates 
PPA causes laggy mouse motion on my Dell Mini 9's touchpad; reverting 
that one package to Jaunty fixes it.
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