Rahul wrote:
Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been following the AIGLX repository discussion from the sideline.
> And I'm a bit shocked by what I'm reading there. There seems to be
> strong support for releasing Xorg 7.1 as an update for FC-5 even though
> that will break both NVidea and Ati binary drivers. For the records all
> my computers have a radeon 9200 running OSS drivers.
Kernel updates have been breaking non-free drivers all the time. There
are a number of other changes that broke other third party packages. I
dont quite understand why there is no much shock on potential of Xorg
updates breaking such proprietary drivers.
Yes,
They do which is bad enough from an end user POv. But which aslo is
fixable, usually by booting the old kernel, wait for a day or two that
other repo todo the work and tada magicly fixed. Not quite perfect, but
close. NVidea doesn't have drivers which will work with 7.1 planned for
a month and Ati probably will be even slower. Also one cannot just
reboot into that older kernel, so there is a HUGE difference here.
Anyways I explicitly asked not to discuss this in this thread this
belongs in a seperate thread.
Regards,
Hans