On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:57:57PM -0600, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > 2009/11/18 Bryce Harrington <[email protected]>: > > Okay, 1.7 is sounding like the logical choice. ??Any other considerations > > we should take into account? ??Anyone else have feedback on this choice? > > My main interest is the GLX 1.4 support in xserver 1.8. I'm not > exactly sure how much that's causing problems for free software > drivers' users, but there might be some hordes of eg. close source > games which only work with 1.4 - anyone with more information? And > it's not even GLX 1.4 "support", it's AFAIK just an additional > definition that "btw, DRI2-enabled drivers support GLX 1.4". > > I think it's just > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ad5c0d9efa47476ed5cf75c82265c73919e468b4 > and a clarifying patch > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=4c6bfa2c09ae2b0cffdf9211a6dfbcaefe0366b5 > - if someone happens to have an known example applications that > require 1.4, might be worth trying and finding out if it would be > beneficial enough to even include those two commits as patches to 1.7.
Good point. Although, if it is primarily for benefitting games, I would guess that this class of user is going to be less constrained to using the LTS and more likely to upgrade to Lucid+1 or even xorg-edgers in order to gain features like this. Aside from games, I could imagine some UI projects that might need enhanced GL functionality - think handheld devices. However, in these cases the OEM team would be able to just include these patches in Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
