On Fri, 2024-09-06 at 13:58 +0200, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 1:47 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 18:54 +0200, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > My understanding is the reason we hadn't was because of the > > > NVIDIA > > > binary driver. For the desktops that still use X11 and the X11 > > > DDX > > > instead of the modesetting driver, that could be a problem if the > > > ABI > > > broke. > > > > Here it says, some NVIDIA binary driver needs X11 DDX , that why I > > wrote that seems possible re-add X11 DDX > > > > https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMX-DDX-Dropping-2021 > > https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-DMX-Dropped > > > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/b3b81c8c2090cd49410960a021baf0d27fdd2ab3 > > DDX refers to Device-Dependent-X11 driver, the NVIDIA driver provides > its own binary module for it. Of course, it's also not necessary if > the NVIDIA driver exposes kernel modesetting, then the regular > modesetting DDX that Xorg uses by default should be sufficient. > > DMX is something else entirely. OK , Thanks for the explanation I'd like to understand, so what in "X server 21.1" broke ? from this thread [1] only 340xx driver stopped to work , 390xx supports xorg-21.1 [1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/xorg-server-21-1-released-any-eta-on-compatible-nvidia-drivers/193422/4 -- Sérgio M. B. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
