X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules [LWN.net]

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 14, 2006 21:14 UTC (Mon) by warmcat1 (guest, #31975)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by drag
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

> I bought hardwares specificly because of
> Free software support and I want to try
> out AIGLX, but I don't have the time or
> the willingness to upgrade to 7.1 on my
> own from source.

You should try the relevant packages from development repo. Just temporarily enable fedora-development.repo and start with, eg

yum install xorg-x11-*

see what the requires situation wants you to do. You can always go back to the FC5 ones by hand in a console if it doesn't work out.