[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-nv 2.1.0

Aaron Plattner aplattner at nvidia.com
Thu Jun 21 18:53:08 PDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:43:05PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:14:26PM -0700, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:22:48PM -0700, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> > > > This stable release of the nv driver includes support for RandR 1.2 on
> > > > GeForce 8 series GPUs, including support for LVDS flat panels.  It also
> > > > includes a simple dual-head mode for pre-G80 GPUs, as well as miscellaneous
> > > > bug fixes.
> > >
> > > Hi Aaron,
> > >
> > > I am preparing the ubuntu package for this new driver, but had a
> > > question from a user - does this support the 8400M chipset?
> >
> > No, not yet.
>
> Is it merely a matter of adding the pci id's or are there coding changes
> that also need to be done?

No, I got a laptop with an 8400M in it today and tried it out and it didn't
work right, so it'll take some debugging.

-- Aaron



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