The release of DDX drivers developed by the X.Org project took place, working in user space and not requiring KMS/DRM drivers on the kernel side. New versions offer backlog of bug fixes and provide compatibility with modern compilers. Updates available:
- xf86-video-nv 2.1.23 – driver for older NVIDIA video cards that do not provide support at the kernel level.
- xf86-video-vboxvideo 1.0.1 – driver for the VBoxVGA virtual graphics adapter used in VirtualBox. The driver can be used to run the X server in situations where the guest system does not have the vboxvideo KMS driver running at the kernel level (if there is a kernel module, use the generic “xf86-video-modesetting” driver).
- xf86-video-chips 1.5.0 – driver for graphics devices from Chips & Technologies.
- xf86-video-savage 2.4.1 – driver for video cards of the Savage family, produced by S3 in the late 1990s.
You can also note the publication of a new version of the library libX11 1.8.8 with the implementation of the X11 protocol and updating the utilities and libraries developed by the X.Org project
libXmu 1.2.0,
libpciaccess 0.18.1,
libXaw 1.0.16,
xman 1.2.0,
xedit 1.2.4,
xload 1.2.0,
lndir 1.0.5 And xdm 1.1.15. The new versions provide compatibility with the upcoming release of GCC 14 and remove support for the legacy OSF, AIXV3, Ultrix, HP-UX, SGI, VAX, QNX, UXP and Lynx platforms.
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