On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 at 19:00, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM Leigh Scott <leigh123li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM Olivier Fourdan > > > <ofourdan(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > Not directly related, but hopefully not entirely off-topic: > > > Are there plans to update the xorg-x11-server package itself to the > > > new stable branch too? > > > > > > It's been stuck on the 1.20.14 release for a long time (on the last > > > release from the 1.20 branch from 2021 - admittedly, with a lot of > > > backports). > > > But the last stable release of xorg-server (21.1.13) was just a month ago. > > > > > > Fabio > > > > Updating the xorg abi would mean retirement for nvidia 340xx and 390xx. > > Does this mean "I'm against it" or "it would involve retiring two > legacy NVidia driver packages"?
I'd love to see an updated version of xorg-x11-server, as it'd allow dropping most, if not all of those backports and it'd bring in a lot of bug fixes and improvements. Looking at nVidia 340 and 390 driver series, the last releases were: 340.108 on 2019.12.23, i.e. ~4.5 years ago 390.157 on 2022.11.22, i.e. ~2.5 years ago However, 390.157 supports Xorg 21.1 series: https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/390.157/README/minimumrequirements.html so I think we would not have to retire 390 series driver just yet. Heck, the 390 series supports the GT 525M GPU in my 12 year old Dell XPS 15 laptop. I should actually try it as the nouveau driver doesn't work very well with it. So, I think losing compatibility with binary nVidia drivers that were EOL 4.5 years ago while still being compatible with drivers supporting 12yo GPUs is an acceptable trade-off for bumping the Xorg xserver to 21.1.x in F41. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://fedoraproject.org Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. -- from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
