Re: Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-18 Thread Nedas Pekorius
I think my question could fit in this topic also. How about MIR and switchable graphics like Nvidia optimus? As far as I know nouveau doesn't support discrete graphic chip. On 18 June 2013 01:02, Robert Ancell robert.anc...@canonical.com wrote: Mir uses the free drivers that X does currently

Re: Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-18 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On 18.06.2013 21:10, Nedas Pekorius wrote: I think my question could fit in this topic also. How about MIR and switchable graphics like Nvidia optimus? Should be easier to support, since the xserver is out of the picture. Proper hybrid support depends on kernel features that are about to land

Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-17 Thread Karl Anliot
I have to ask because I do not know: will MIR support old abandoned video cards?So If I have an older graphics card that works well now, will the MIR maintainers be supporting that graphics card into the future? cheers, kanliot -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-17 Thread Robert Ancell
Mir uses the free drivers that X does currently and Android drivers. So if you card is currently supported in X (i.e. intel, ati, nouveau) then it will continue to work (if those drivers are continued to be maintained). On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Karl Anliot kanl...@gmail.com wrote: I