Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 21:42 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
It's been a hell of a time getting X.Org 7.4 out the door, but this afternoon Adam Jackson has released this long-delayed update to this X system. X.Org 7.4 is arriving after the release of X Server 1.5.1 earlier in the day. Yes, it's finally here! In this article we have information on the features that make up this release along with what it's taken to get X.Org 7.4 primed for release.
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Member since:2005-07-26
NVIDIA - Pull your finger out and release X11 7.4 compatible drivers!
Now this may be a little OT, but i'm starting to think i should make my next GPU an intel. Another thing i read was a statement from a nvidia official that they are NOT planning to include support for their upcoming "hybrid power" solutions in their linux drivers. Nor do they include "purevideo" support.
Yes, i'm a bit dissapointed in nvidia lately. Maybe i should get a life? (if so, do one have to install windows for that?)
RE[2]: Built & Running!
by StaubSaugerNZ on Thu 25th Sep 2008 00:19
in reply to "RE: Built & Running!"
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Member since:2007-07-20
Id be pretty happy with intel graphics except that were finishing the apricot open game (yofrankie.org) which uses fairly advanced shaders. I feel like a bit of a dick with a 1gig nvidia, running vesa single screen. lucky were up to documentation :/.
gives me a good excuse to test blender3d with Mesa7.2
Ati and intel also have quite bad support for OpenGL features not commonly used in games. (like 2D bitmap drawing or drawing the selection buffer). really hoping Intel pickup their act on this since having a gfx card with open drivers work that properly with OpenGL would be an advantage.
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2007-07-20
downloaded the sources from GIT and built using the build.sh script today.
Was a bit disappointed with how hard it is to build, there were 8 or so packages that didnt install headers in the correct place (had to manually copy). libXp didn't build from the script, and a dependency drm2proto wasn't downloaded or in the build script.
Would be nice if they had their build system better updated.
- Aside from that. it seems to run well and definitely starts faster.
NVIDIA - Pull your finger out and release X11 7.4 compatible drivers!