[ubuntu-x] Xserver 1.9 / 1.10 decision

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:06:48PM +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> It also looks like Keith is itching to merge RandR 1.4 with per-crtc
> pixmaps.  These patches touch a fair whack of stuff (RandR, driver API,
> protocol).  It's not clear to me how many drivers are going to use the
> newly exposed API, but it sounds like the nVidia binary driver could get
> RandR 1.4 support, which would be a pretty compelling reason to pull
> this.

For 1.2 and 1.3 the randr stuff was pretty stable when it landed;
it was when drivers began using it that we started seeing bugs.

Bryce