Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 04 Dezember 2008 schrieb Quentin Jackson:
>
> > 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.
> Hi Quentin,
>
> You must have different kind of friends than I have. If I tell mine that the 
> 3d performance for an intel 3 numbers chip is not as good as before, they 
> would most likely say "hmm? intel what?"
>
> Seriously: as you seem to know the details of clever business, perhaps you
> can help out here. We have two options at the moment:
> 1. skip 11.1 release and publish 11.2 in about 8 months hoping that Intel got 
> their drivers ready to support all their chips correctly.
> 2. release 11.1 and basically document that all intel 3 number chips (for 
> certain 3 numbers only of course) have to skip 11.1 and wait for 11.2 in 
> about half a year.
>
> What's the choice you prefer? You seem to advocate option 1.

Stephan, Intel released the code, no? I believe they did, and if so, why
hasen't Novell simply fixed the drivers? If that isn't possible, then
why not make a previous driver work properly? After all, these chips
were well supported in openSUSE 11.0. "Dumping" on a whole lot of users
ISN'T the answer!

Fred

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