Re: new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Tre=F0diena, 12. Apr=EElis 2006 22:17, Michael Pardee wrote:
> The new nvidia driver has already been integrated into Ubuntu 6.06 beta a=
nd
> does indeed seem to fix the dreaded nvidia crashing problem.  We tested on
> both agp and pci-e setups, and it runs for a long time with 4 users loggi=
ng
> in/out every 12 seconds.  Multi-user operation is obviously not a high
> priority for nvidia, but at least they spent the time to fix this key bug.
> Hopefully their driver is written so that the fix should be pretty much
> hardware independent.
>
> On another note, we have succesfully brought up 3 users with xorg 7.0 with
> Ubuntu 6.06 beta.  The evdev keyboard syntax has changed, now you need to
> use the evdev driver instead of kbd and "dev phys" doesn't seem to work,
> but now specifying "Device" works (it did not always work before)
> Here is an example of the switched syntax:
>         Identifier      "keyboard0"
>         Driver          "evdev"
>         Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
>         #Driver         "kbd"
>         #Option "Protocol" "evdev"
>         #Option "Dev Phys" "isa0060/serio0/input0"
>
> It would be nice to get "dev phys" working again, but specifying by event#
> is just as useful for our plug-in-anywhere scripts.

Driver is not "hardcoded" into server any more.
Get recent evdev driver and enjoy XKB and "Phys" option ;o)
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/

Aivils
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