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From: donnie berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xserver ebuilds
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:33:34
Message-Id: 1830.141.166.211.96.1069317206.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] xserver ebuilds by gabor
1 gabor <gabor@××××.net> wrote:
2 > question:
3 >
4 > i understand this thing is very much in development and uncomplete. but
5 > when finished,
6 > what will be the compatibility?
7 > i mean should all X apps run fine (kde/gnome/mozilla/openoffice/java)?
8
9 That's the idea. It's supposed to be compliant with the X standards, so if
10 the apps are written to be compliant with the same instead of some
11 XFree86-only hack, they should work.
12
13 > and the drivers? will we be able to use for example the binary-only
14 > nvidia-or-ati drivers?
15
16 They will need to have new drivers for this. Talks are underway with at
17 least one major distributor.
18
19 > what about opengl?
20
21 That's in the works. You might want to follow the xserver mailing list at
22 xserver.freedesktop.org.
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