On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 19:29 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote: > > On 2/1/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Benjy Grogan wrote: > > I hear that in a week or so Novell will be releasing the > source code to > > XGL for X11 7.0. Will it be possible to have XGL available > in Extras > > for FC5? I'm guessing it's one of those new X11 modules > that v7.0 is > > all about. But I know little about XGL and would like to > test it out to > > know more. It's going to be in NLD 10 in a few months. > > There are a lot of X related "goodies" that are up and coming > in the > X development world, including technologies being developed by > Red Hat, > Novell, Sun, and various others in the community. The current > plan for > Fedora Core 5, is to ship X11R7.0 as the official X > implementation, > including the Xorg X server. > > The various developmental/experimental technologies being > developed > by the above parties will most likely be available to Fedora > users in > one form or another over time, however everything is quite > experimental > at the current point in time to make any solid speculation for > the > inclusion of other components into Fedora Core 5 at this time. > > Maybe Fedora could do something like was done with SELinux? Where it > was available in FC2 but not by default. In an update for X11 from > 7.0 to 7.1 for FC5 the Xgl branch could be included along with > instructions on how to enable it. This is how Novell will be > introducing Xgl to it's NLD10 distribution. It seems like a good way > to get Xgl tested early and it's the perfect place for it to take > place, in Fedora. > > I'm eager to see how Xgl works. :) And then I guess compiz would be > the next request. ;) > > Benji fyi just tried the fresh fc5 xgl rpms from http://spot.livejournal.com/253304.html and it works great here on a geforce 6600gt. finally some candy to play with for us poor nvidia driver users! :-) big thanks to Spot !! cheers -- Lars G <terraformers@xxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list