I don't have any legacy Nvidia hardware, but I still think compatibility should be a big concern for serious and reliable OS, so my vote is negative on this.
Bleeding edge disregarding compatibility and lacking any good motivation (and version X > version Y isn't enough) is no good to me. If this is such mandatory decision and there are good reasons to do this, I would go on dropping an email to Nvidia to see if they are actually interested in updating their legacy drivers for newer xorg, if they aren't (or don't respond) the least we should do is providing an automatic way to switch to nouveau for those cards. Il giorno mer, 18/01/2012 alle 13.16 +0100, Michele ha scritto: > On 18/01/2012 13:01, Andre Parhan wrote: > > I'd agree with Wolfden, but be sure to have a good disclaimer warning > > for possible failure with legacy nvidia cards, otherwise n00bs could > > think we are the problem... > > > > 2012/1/18 Wolfden <wolf...@gmail.com <mailto:wolf...@gmail.com>> > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@sabayon.org > > <mailto:lx...@sabayon.org>> wrote: > > > > I would really like to bump xorg-server to 1.11, but as stated in my > > previous post here, nvidia legacy drivers would stop working. > > Should we really hold the version bump due to that? I say no. > > > > Dump your opinion here, I'll take the final decision this weekend > > (sooner or later it's going to happen anyway, and NVIDIA doesn't > > seem > > very reactive in updating their legacy stuff). > > > > -- > > Fabio Erculiani > > > > > > I vote go for it, we are bleeding edge and time to move on. > > > > -- > > KJS > > ~wolfden~ > > > > I would rather pick another distro if I needed to run Linux on an older > machine, and probably most people would do the same (Puppy or some > Ubuntu spinoff), so I say let's get the latest version. > Anyways the oldest video card I have is two years old, so for me it's ok :) > mic > > -- Lorenzo Cogotti
