Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Lange wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:49 -0500, Putrycz, Erik wrote:
> > I haven't heard anyone who got compiz working out of the box with OS
> > 11.1.
>
> Not only that but the there are no ATI drivers for 11.1 and there is
> something preventing them from compiling that hasn't been resolved.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444912
>
> If you have an ATI card running compiz and do an upgrade to 11.1, you
> will experience a major "down-grade" with respect to your desktop
> effects.
>
> If the problem with the ATI drivers compiling is on the ATI side then I
> understand we can't do much about that. If the problem is on the
> OpenSUSE side then that should be resolved before shipping.
>
> If the problem exists for all ATI and Nvidia cards then that is pretty
> severe (Ship Stop?).

Don't AMD run repos for their drivers for 10.2, 10.3, 11.0 right now?

It wouldn't be a ship stopper just because a 3rd party proprietary vendor
didn't bother to release new drivers packaged for the new OS. And I
wouldn't expect AMD to be building drivers against 11.1 until it hit a
very late RC (now, or what will be RC3 I guess, which will then hit GM, and
then you can but hope..).

As long as you're not tied to Factory and just want the new release, it
might actually be all fine.

Isn't AMD a Novell partner? Or does that only extend to the provision
of servers etc.? Can anyone on openSUSE get a response from the graphics
guys as to the scheduled next ATI driver release will be which supports
11.1?

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Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
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