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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 14, 2006 22:28 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by iabervon
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Ya I don't know for sure. Maybe a X developer would be able to clarify.

To me the point has always been so that you are able to run newer drivers then your current X version has, not so much you can remain binary-compatable with old drivers.

The idea is that as driver mature you should be able to install new versions for bug fixes and such.

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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 9:53 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

You can, it's just that the ABI was broken in the move to 7.1. I think the specific change was adding privates to glyphs to allow glyph caching, which was actually an Xgl change ...


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