[F18][ATI Rage XL] Problems with install on ATI Rage XP video driver

[Adam Williamson]

On 03/04/13 12:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-04-03 11:48 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
>
>> There are
>> limits to how long the F/OSS stack devs are able to work on extremely
>> old hardware, they don't have infinite resources...
>
> IOW, if you want to keep using old hardware, you need to participate in
> keeping it supported. That means participation in testing upcoming
> release versions so as to discover and report problems soon enough that
> fixes might be provided when breakage is discovered.

That always helps, but let's not kid ourselves that even all 
comprehensively documented graphics bugs are fixed. There just aren't 
the developers to fix them all, and 'likely prevalence of hardware in 
the real world' is one of the factors the devs use in prioritising bugs 
for fixing, which means bugs for extremely ancient hardware tend to go 
down the queue a bit. It's not that they never get fixed, but...
-- 
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