Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

["Quentin Jackson" <Quentin.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:40 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> z wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Don't know, if it related, but on my intel-965 screensavers doesn't
> > start. Test preview works, but automatically they can't start (all
> > that happens - display image freeze. if i move mouse, it defreezes
> > again)
>
> Apparently, 11.1 will release without proper support for the i965
> chipset, which is a BIG mistake, IMHO, simply because there are so many
> laptops with this chipset in use and still being sold by Dell and others
> with it! MANY Dell sold in Europe and part of Asia with this chipset AND
> Linux preloaded.....I think the model was an Inspiron 1520n.

I don't have an Intel GFX card but yes if that is happening it is a big
mistake.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anyone responsible for
fixing this 'big picture' stuff, or maybe they're only interested in
SLED.  Even though OpenSuSE keeps making big strides with many things
many of these 'Mistakes' are letting the distribution down making it not
worth even considering for some people.  Imagine if you had only ever
tried 11.1, you would go off and tell your friends it didn't even
support an intel 965 chip.

I for one am looking round at other distro's, I don't want to move from
OpenSuSE and I remain committed to it but there are a few things being
done that just seem silly to me and not clever business at all.  If I'm
looking around, so must others be and I'd really like to avoid that
cause OpenSuSE has soooo much more potential than other distro's.

Q

> Fred
>
> -- 
> "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
> than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to
> control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
> deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks
> will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up
> homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802

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