On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:29:17AM -0700, Ryan Lovett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:18:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I think it may be supported by the XFree86 4.4.0 release candidate from > > which we can backport changes, but I don't know if there will be time to do > > this before Debian's xfree86 packages go into a freeze for the sarge > > release. > > That's fine, this is on amd64/unstable. If a relevent patch was available > could it conceivably be backported to sid? Yes, but the current plan is to migrate Debian to X.Org after sarge releases. > > (Technically, Debian's nv driver in our XFree86 packages is bit fresher > > than XFree86 4.3.0, but not as fresh as XFree86 4.4.0 RC 3.) > > > > Are you in a position to try NVIDIA's proprietary drivers? > > I've finally been able to test the proprietary driver for amd64 and can > report that it does support 1600x1200. Okay. I'm glad to hear that you're able to use your hardware in Debian in a more satisfactory way, but I am sorry that it's not currently possible with the free software in Debian unstable. For what it's worth, an updated "nv" driver (though not all the way up to XFree86 4.4.0) will be in 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7, and I've already got a report that it supports even more hardware than it claims too. You might get lucky with your Quadro FX 1100. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / branden@debian.org | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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