On 2007-09-01, 21:03 GMT, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Even if those situations account for 1/10,000 users, those are
precisely the cases that need to be covered to market something
as "bulletproof".
People who are able to find all necessary numbers will most
likely have no problem with the most mature front-end for the
X configuration -- you know, the know which name consists only
from letters "v" and "i" (in this order ;-)).
No really, what I read in Adam's email (and what's my experience
from reading hundreds of Xorg bugs, being bugmaster for RH
desktop I read a lot of them), the problems we have are not in
not having enough information about hardware (take a look at
/var/log/Xorg.0.log -- there is plenty of information there) --
it's that quite often the information provided by hardware is
plainly wrong, or that xorg drivers suck. Concerning the former,
I don't understand how would information provided to Windows by
the vendor was that much better than information they provide via
hardware. And concerning the latter, I don't see any relation to
"bulletproof X" whatsoever.
Please, correct me if I am wrong.
Matej