Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:43:52AM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 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?

Pointers to the "fixed" drivers would be appreciated.

I'm still waiting for a solid report about what you are referring to,
with a bugzilla number.  Without that, this all comes across as
pointless ranting...

thanks,

greg k-h
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