X.Org 7.5 Now Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org 7.5 Now Released

X Server 1.7 was released earlier this month thereby paving the way for the release of X.Org 7.5, which is finally out there this afternoon. X.Org 7.5 consists of X Server 1.7.1 and all of the latest drivers, libraries, and other modules. The key features introduced since X.Org 7.4 last year are Multi-Pointer X, X Input 2.0, input device properties, RandR 1.3, and DRI2...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzY0NQ

[bulletxt]

yay.... finally too bad it didn't make it for ubuntu 9.10

[RealNC]

Does anyone know if the AMD Catalyst driver works with this? Gentoo pushed this into portage, but I'm a bit afraid to do the update.

[d2kx]

Does anyone know if the AMD Catalyst driver works with this? Gentoo pushed this into portage, but I'm a bit afraid to do the update.

Don't expect Xserver 1.7 support in 2009.

[RealNC]

Great. Not.

[energyman]

Does anyone know if the AMD Catalyst driver works with this? Gentoo pushed this into portage, but I'm a bit afraid to do the update.

they don't. And I don't think they will before 2010.

The nvidia drivers have trouble too. And downgrading is a nightmare. So.. don't touch that stuff. It was painfull.

[RealNC]

I did touch it.

Fortunately downgrading was relatively easy; I've created binpkgs before the upgrade

[Kano]

Did only test vbox with xserver 1.7, that worked at least. But shouldn't Nvidia 190.36+ driver work with it?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=138892

[energyman]

I did touch it.

Fortunately downgrading was relatively easy; I've created binpkgs before the upgrade

I always create them

[Kano]

Just buy a better supported card if you always need the latest