Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 16:08 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Quentin Jackson wrote:
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:57 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I just updated beta 5 via zypper. All seems to have gone well, but I noticed there's STILL a "show stopper" for a LOT of users with Intel video. Performance is the pits.....pure and simple. OpenGL screen savers don't run properly....often with a small widow of the same image super imposed on the full image, and they can still lock up the 'puter. Because of this, I don't dare install RC1 on a desktop with a nVidia video card for fear of what will happen. There are driver and/or "X" problems that must get fixed before release. wmv format movie clips "stutter".......not smooth due to poor performance.
Fred
I'd say this is an Intel related problem, many many people have NVIDIA working without hassle. The best thing you can do is push via the bug that you will have logged or found. I agree though, it's these kind of show stoppers that OpenSuSE still needs to get better at, the Jury's out to whether we finally have a working wireless networking solution since 10.3 for example. Still, theres one last chance before the GM version. In my opinion this type of thing is the single only thing that lets this distribution down and I have no idea how to fix it. Otherwise OpenSuSE would be as near perfect as a distro could be.
It's always the same crap that bites us in the butt.....drivers!! wifi is working for me with an Intel Pro w/3945 chipset. NOT as well as in the past, but working. Yes.....marginal wifi and video simply CAN'T be allowed in a GM release!! Since Intel did release the code fro it's video, I see no reason why the driver isn't good.
Well, that opinion right there (about the can't be allowed in a GM release) and an opinion that I generally share is in my opinion the little nugget that causes/fixes the issue I'm talking about depending on the particular developers take on it maybe and the community as a whole. I've tried to raise this before, even tried to talk to Andreas about it but after too-ing and fro-ing evetually ended up with no response unfortunately. I would love this topic to be brought up and voted on, but I have no idea where to raise it, if it has been officially raised before or anything. Does anyone know where we could look at this as a community? To me it might just make the difference between awesome software that works sometimes and awesome software that can be relied upon. Q
Fred
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Am Samstag 29 November 2008 schrieb Quentin Jackson:
Well, that opinion right there (about the can't be allowed in a GM release) and an opinion that I generally share is in my opinion the little nugget that causes/fixes the issue I'm talking about depending on the particular developers take on it maybe and the community as a whole. I've tried to raise this before, even tried to talk to Andreas about it but after too-ing and fro-ing evetually ended up with no response unfortunately. I would love this topic to be brought up and voted on, but I have no idea where to raise it, if it has been officially raised before or anything. Does anyone know where we could look at this as a community? To me it might just make the difference between awesome software that works sometimes and awesome software that can be relied upon.
You could start with finding out how many Intel graphics system it really affects. It works fine with all systems I tried. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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