Mir instead of Xorg-server

[Scott Kitterman]

Canonical have said they expect such support.  I haven't seen any vendor 
announcements that they will provide them, so I think it's at least somewhat 
up in the air about when/if such support will be delivered.

Scott K

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On Sunday, June 30, 2013 10:11:09 PM Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> Hello Istimsak,
> 
> the proprietary drivers. However Mir support should be available for them
> by 14.04 LTS.
> 
> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
> (K)ubuntu member
> 
> 
> 2013/6/30 Istimsak Abdulbasir <saqman2060 at gmail.com>
> 
> > Scott, when you say "there is no Mir support for non-free video drivers",
> > are you referring to the drivers provided in the repos, or the proprietary
> > drivers supplied by the manufacturers?
> > 
> > Istimsak Abdulbasir
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Scott Kitterman 
<ubuntu at kitterman.com>wrote:
> >> Currently there's no Mir suport for non-free video drivers, so anyone
> >> with
> >> nVidia/ATI will need to use Xorg.  Additionally, some of the other
> >> flavors are
> >> sticking with X for 13.10, and X from 13.10 is needed for 12.04 hardware
> >> enablement updates, so it'll be maintained in any case.
> >> 
> >> Scott K
> >> 
> >> On Saturday, June 29, 2013 10:49:29 PM Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
> >> > Thanks guys. So be default, if Mir is unsuccessful, ubunu will rollback
> >> 
> >> to
> >> 
> >> > xorg.
> >> > 
> >> > On Jun 29, 2013 4:08 PM, "Adrian Goodyer" <adriangoodyer at gmail.com>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > > A
> >> > > s far as I know the graphics drivers will try and use Mir and if
> >> > > unsuccessful will rollback to X.
> >> > > 
> >> > > I would presume then, that a choice between the two would also be
> >> > > available?
> >> > > 
> >> > > Ade.
> >> > > 
> >> > > 
> >> > > 
> >> > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir <
> >> 
> >> saqman2060 at gmail.com
> >> 
> >> > > > wrote:
> >> > >> Starting with 13.10, will the new xserver be Mir or will both Mir
> >> > >> and
> >> > >> xorg-server be available for saucy?
> >> > >> 
> >> > >> Istimsak abdulbasir
> >> > >> 
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