[aklug] Re: xorg upgrade gotcha

On 06/28/2011 09:14 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
> Those running old video cards should be aware that recent xorg 1.10.x
> upgrades drop support for many old cards (such as the Nvidia GeForce card in
> the eight year old Dell Dimension on one of my desks). The X11 server will
> not start. The fix is apparently to downgrade to xorg 1.9.5, breaking
> dependencies, or to finally move to some new, or newer old, equipment...
> I ran into the xorg upgrade during an apparently routine updating of
> PCLinuxos, the "just works" distribution...

Well that bites.

Guess the days of "Linux is perfect for running on older machines" is
over. Does that mean we've arrived? The "year of the desktop" meaning
the desktop only runs on this years hardware?

How come progress so often isn't?

Sigh...

...Kevin

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Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
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