Module submission - NVIDIA

[Samuel Verstraete]

The 7.1 tree is completely ready for releasing in crater... Of course
there is still the fixing of the dependency problem.


On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:29:20 -0700
Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:

> Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> >> New driver for my favourite gfx chip:
> >> * Added support for X.Org 7.1.
> >> * Added support for XVideo with the Composite X extension when
> >> using X.Org 7.1 * Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
> > 
> > How about updating lunar to XOrg 7.1?
> > ATI and Nvidia both supports XOrg 7.1 in their proprietary drivers.
> 
> that's a relatively new thing. XOrg7 had it's problems and we want to
> siff out the install/upgrade problems before we upgrade XOrg7 to 7.1
> (there are still dependency problems unless someone fixed the MESA-GL
> stuff to be included by default).
> 
> Once this is sorted out I have no objections against Making XOrg7
> point to 7.1 and even replacing XOrg.
> 
> so the order is:
> 
> 1) fix dependencies missing in XOrg7
>   1b) move XOrg7 out of zbeta to X11 (or into it's own master folder)
> 2) obsolete XOrg (6.x), rename XOrg7 to XOrg
> 3) update to 7.1
> 
> > If someone would like to work on XOrg 7.1 module I can help. Just
> > let me know.
> 
> start working on getting (1) fixed. that's the first problem. FYI you
> can test/fix this by taking an uninstalled machine, installing
> lunar-1.6.0 on it, doing a full update, and then trying stuff like
> `lin gtk+-2` or even `lin xscreensaver`, which pulls in GL
> dependencies. You should not see a single error during these compiles.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Auke
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