XOrg 7.3

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Thursday 06 of September 2007 14:51:33 Samuel Verstraete wrote:
> > I know i have read this somewhere... but i don't recall where... you
> > have link?

man Xorg
line 144
(this man page should be present in any recent xorg)

> To be found on phoronix...

To be found on nvnews.net (Nvidia Linux section) too.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1351526&postcount=2
ignoreABI is official Nvidia workaround for this problem (till next driver)

> So the -ignoreABI parameter goes together with startx ... You can
> configure gdm and/or slim to add that parameter so you can still work
> with the binary NVIDIA blob...

Not only Nvidia blob. ignoreABI is universal xorg built-in workaround for any 
older binary blobs. (proprietary matrox, ati, nvidia comes to my mind).
Might be useful for matrox as they recently released new driver for Parhelia 
for x.org 7.2 few months ago so it will take some time to get xorg 7.3 
driver)

> i'll still wait a bit before adding it in moonbase... If nVidia is slow
> (like they usually are) then i'm gonna push the release within 1 or 2
> weeks...

Rumors say driver release might be in few days/weeks. (I think depends on how 
many bugs will appear during testing). Nvidia says xorg 7.3 support will be 
present in future releases. So it might be not the next one.
"The next driver release is not pending the Xorg-7.3 release."

> let's hope ATI releases the specs for their radeon quickly

8.41 will be present in next week:
*much faster OpenGL, may be faster than Nvidia
*support for Radeon HD 2xxx (R600)
and I hope they will add x.org 7.3 but who knows...

8.42 will come next month:
*AIGLX support
*fixes for R600 and below

Recent blob from matrox broke x->console switching so they may surprise us 
with driver update soon (xorg 7.3 support too?). Or not :>

zbiggy