Re: [Nix-dev] Overriding xorgserver in nixpkgs

2016-01-11 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/12/2016 04:18 AM, T White wrote: > the AMD driver is the only one which does not support it. Yeah, probably. I wasn't so certain of the legacy nvidia branches, but Linux support of nvidia still seems far ahead of AMD: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=NVIDIA-Legacy-X-1.18 >

Re: [Nix-dev] Overriding xorgserver in nixpkgs

2016-01-11 Thread T White
Hi Vladimir, thanks for the reply. xserver 1.18 has lots of good fixes and the AMD driver is the only one which does not support it. All the rest including Nvidia do. I don't think anyone else should have to wait for the upgrade just because AMD do not make enough effort to track upstream ABI

[Nix-dev] Overriding xorgserver in nixpkgs

2016-01-10 Thread T White
Hi mailing list, I first ran nixos about five years ago and back then I remember I was part of the mailing list; asking lots of questions and I remember that Sander, Mark and Eelco were very helpful. :) Hi guys! Anyway, having not had suitable enough hardware at the time I ventured off and