__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Thursday 21 September 2006 12:23 \__
> NVIDIA 1.0-9XXX Series Preview
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> | First off, NVIDIA's proprietary drivers in the upcoming 1.0-9XXX
> | release should finally support the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> | extension. This extension is required in order to use AIGLX, which
> | has been sought after by many Linux desktop users.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The first release candidate for X.Org 7.2 is due out this October, but
> | there has been no word yet from NVIDIA on their position for support.
> | The next releases of Fedora and Ubuntu (Core 6 and Edgy Eft 6.10,
> | respectively) will use X.Org 7.1 while OpenSuSE/SuSE looks like it
> | will be the first major distribution to ship with X.Org 7.2. If X.Org
> | 7.2 ends up breaking the API/ABI, it is not known when NVIDIA intend
> | to deliver a supportive driver.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=551&num=2
Update:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=552&num=1
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| Two days after delivering our NVIDIA 1.0-9XXX Series Preview, NVIDIA
| has shocked the alternative OS community by not only delivering a Beta
| candidate for the Linux display drivers but also for Solaris and FreeBSD!
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