safe to upgrade to meerkat alpha 3?

[NoOp]

On 08/29/2010 06:26 AM, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:54:54 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 
>>On 08/28/2010 01:19 AM, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> And if you want to live a little more dangerously with an nvidia card,
>>> add xorg-edgers-ppa for glorious gallium powered compiz 3D with nouveau.
>>
>>Do you have an nvidia-96 card, or some other version?
>>http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.18-driver.html
>>GeForce 4 MX series:
>>MX 440, MX 440 (AGP 8X), MX 420 (AGP 8X), MX 420, MX 440-SE, MX
>>Integrated GPU, MX 460, MX 440SE (AGP 8X), MX 4000
>>
>>Quadro NVS series:
>>NVS 285, NVS 55/280 PCI, NVS 210, NVS 420, NVS 450, NVS 50, NVS 295, NVS
>>280, NVS 440, NVS 290
>>
>>Quadro 4 Go series:
>>500 GoGL, 550 XGL, 700 GoGL
>>
>>Quadro 2 Go series:
>>MXR/EX/Go
>>
>>GeForce 4 Ti series:
>>Ti 4800, Ti 4800 SE, Ti 4400, Ti 4200 (AGP 8X), Ti 4200, Ti 4600
>>
>>GeForce 2 series:
>>Ti 200, GeForce3, Ti 500
>>
>>Quadro 2 MXR series:
>>Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go
>>
>>
> 
> None of the above (an 8600?? maybe). The comment was intended as a
> general comment on the state of the free drivers and gallium 3D, rather
> than relating to a specific proprietary driver; apologies for any
> misunderstanding.

No misunderstanding... I was hoping that you actually do have a '96
series. I've looked through Robert's xorg-edgers-ppa and all of that
work seems to be for the '256 series/drivers and if you had managed to
get it to work for a '96 I would be inclined to give it a go on my test
machine.