On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it also needs to be made clear that free drivers shipped with > Fedora DO work. > > so something along the lines of: > > *Proprietary (third party) video drivers* > > Fedora ships a pre-release of the next version of the xorg which has a > new ABI. All drivers contained within fedora have been ported to use > this ABI and mostly work as expected. However, third part drivers from > some vendors (AMD and nVidia) have not yet been made compatible with > this new xorg ABI. > > If your use of the computer depends on these proprietary drivers, then > you are strongly advise to either not upgrade to Fedora 9 yet, exclude > xorg\* packages from upgrade (when using yum upgrade), or downgrade > your xorg\* packages back to those in Fedora 8 after installation > (when using upgrade from DVD). > > (second para mostly taken as is from Matej Cepl's email.) > > (as for status of fglrx, it has a new release yesterday, but it seems > only compatibility for the kernel 2.6.25 was added, not the new xorg > ABI) Guys, its a wiki, go to it! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
