graphics drivers for X.org?

monty · 06-08-2004, 08:43 PM

was just wondering if anyone knew of any graphics drivers for NVidia or ATI cards written for X.org, since all the major distros seem to be moving in that direction.

Will the current drivers, based on XFree86, work with X.org?

solnul · 06-08-2004, 09:14 PM

Yes, since the current X.org is just a fork of XFree86. And since it's been adopted by almost all the major distros, further development will likely be for X.org.

Some newer distros, like Fedora, have enabled additional options (like 4KSTACKS or regparm) that the drivers have trouble with. Getting that to work is another story. Sometimes there's a patch, sometimes not.

make · 06-09-2004, 12:39 AM

I'm running Fedora Core 2 with the latest ATI 3.9.0 drivers for XFree 4.3.0. I've made up myself a script to install the drivers for it, since it requires some extra work. Check out this topic: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...0&pagenumber=5

With Fedora I haven't got (so far) the same lockups than with Mandrake 10. So I could say the ATI drivers work pretty well with X.org.

However, I can play no Windows-games anymore... neither Wine nor WineX run on Fedora Core 2, without a kernel recompilation or a fix to Wine.