Mir with Proprietary Drivers

[Kevin Gunn]

Hi Kyle -
Hope you understand it would be inappropriate to discuss partner
commitments. But, yes, what you asking is technically correct in that
proprietary driver support would be required when there is no fallback.

best regards, kg


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Williams, Kyle <
kyle.williams2 at stu.fayette.kyschools.us> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  I have a quick question about the upcoming release of Mir. I know that
> when Ubuntu 13.10 is released, Mir will ship as the default display server,
> unless the user uses a proprietary driver, in which case it will fall back
> to X. But what happens when that fallback is removed in 14.04 LTS *if *AMD
> / Nvidia have not released proprietary drivers? Will we still be able to
> use the drivers they supply now? I don't think it would be possible, but am
> I wrong? I'm a gamer, so proprietary drivers are essential, unless the
> open-source drivers have an extreme overhaul.
>
>  Thanks!
>
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