X.Org Server 1.19 Officially Released With A Year's Worth Of Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org Server 1.19 Officially Released With A Year's Worth Of Improvements

It's been more than one year since the release of X.Org Server 1.18 was released and several weeks past the planned release of X.Org Server 1.19, but nevertheless it's out there today under the "Cioppino" codename...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Server-1.19-Released

[GraysonPeddie]

Seems like I want to go for AMD for amdgpu. I've been thinking, though. The pointer-locking should work with virt-manager, right?

[linuxjacques]

"The proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver will surely be updated shortly with support for the new video driver ABI."

That was four months ago.

AFAICT there is still no support.

[kmare]

Most likely, Nvidia was waiting for the final Xorg 1.19 release to issue a compatible driver.

[linuxjacques]

Most likely, Nvidia was waiting for the final Xorg 1.19 release to issue a compatible driver.

That would be nice. I want to run Fedora 25.

[uid313]

Has anything been removed from X.Org Server in this release?
Is anything scheduled for removal in the next release?

Can the XWayland module be improved to provide a nicer, more integrated look and feel?
So that the applications running throgh XWayland looks more native.
Would a GTK themed window decorator be possible?
Could it expose GtkHeaderBar?

[smitty3268]

Most likely, Nvidia was waiting for the final Xorg 1.19 release to issue a compatible driver.

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2016-November/051746.html

November 2nd,

Hi Keith, Can I consider the ABI frozen at this point, so we can get the ball rolling on official driver support? -- Aaron

[Michael]

"The proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver will surely be updated shortly with support for the new video driver ABI."

That was four months ago.

AFAICT there is still no support.

They were waiting for KeithP to confirm that the ABI is now finalized and no more breaks, discussion happened a few weeks ago on the mailing list.

[Azrael5]

Is there a way to use core profile on opengl drivers instead of compliant profile from mesa over x11 graphical compositor?

[smitty3268]

Is there a way to use core profile on opengl drivers instead of compliant profile from mesa over x11 graphical compositor?

I'm not really sure what your question is, but the GL profile used depends on what the app asks for.

If the app uses the old API, they get a compatibility profile. If the app specifically asks for a compat profile, they get that. It only gets a core profile if it specifically asks for one, and if it does that it should always get it.