Radeon and new xorg

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Martin Wilke wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:50:35 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> So will a Radeon card not work with the new xorg at all, even in UMS?
>
> Hi,
>
> for me radeon is work, even with xorg 7.7 RC1
>
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:5:0:	class=0x030000 card=0xd0001458
> chip=0x97141002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>    device     = 'RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]'
>    class      = display
>    subclass   = VGA
> hdac0 at pci0:1:5:1:

A Radeon 4650 works here with mesa 7.11 and xorg-server 1.10.6.  So what 
does this mean:

   A switch is available for people that want to use mesa 7.11.x and
   xorg-server 1.10.6. This requires an nvidia card or Intel+KMS support.

Does nvidia require KMS with 1.10.6?