It seems like the latest driver (575.57.08) isn’t compatible with X11Libre , as it needs to be re-built against the 28 ABI. Was anyone able to successfully run this X11 fork on an NVIDIA GPU? ▶ xorg logfile

[image] opisalwaysgreat: as it needs to be re-built against the 28 ABI. Was anyone able to successfully run this X11 fork on an NVIDIA GPU X11Libre needs to use the same ABI that Xorg uses as I doubt nvidia will add support for it. Maybe try Section "ServerFlags" Option "Ignor…

External Image The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week.. dont think xlibre is gonna be the future

If X11Libre is going to break or drop any of the X11 APIs that the NVIDIA driver depends on, I think this project should just die and disappear. The whole point of X11 has always been 100% backward API/ABI compatibility. If X11Libre is going to break it, it’s not X11 any longer. It’s just a broken …

@birdie but hasn’t X’s API/ABI been changed before between major versions? That’s why (as far as I understand) the Nvidia drivers probe what is actually available as explained here , no? IMO, a more important question is whether Xlibre is able to provide some actual value while not degrading stabili…

@gulafaran keep in mind that some of these reverts may have been politically or personally motivated (I’m not saying they were for sure, definitely not all of them, but it is a possibility that at least some were).

Funny that it took Larabel 2 weeks to finally cover the subject at all. You realize that all these MR were first peer-reviewed by others Xorg devs right? None of which found an issue (until now), and allowed the merging. I wish Wayland just worked™, but as NVIDIA GPU owners, we all know how it suc…

The guy behind the project wanted to make the project/fork free of politics and added a ton of politics in the README file. The guy pushed a lot of poorly tested code that resulted in major regressions. The guy pushed changes that broke ABI. The guy was quite combative in his comments. Larabel kne…

[image] birdie: The guy behind the project wanted to make the project/fork free of politics and added a ton of politics in the README file. The guy pushed a lot of poorly tested code that resulted in major regressions. fully agree with the above 2 points. What I think Xlibre needs in the fi…

Thank you, finally reporting back and can confirm this just works so far (despite my annoying Lenovo Legion AMD APU + NVIDIA discrete GPU setup), even on an external monitor (4K/144Hz).

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leigh123linux June 15, 2025, 8:51am 2

X11Libre needs to use the same ABI that Xorg uses as I doubt nvidia will add support for it.

Maybe try

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "IgnoreABI" "True"
EndSection

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