Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Lange wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:41 -0600, Matt Sealey wrote:
> > 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..).
>
> I guess it's what we've come to expect when you run opensource 

You must be kidding, right?

Don't you remember when Vista was released? There wasn't a decent graphics
driver for ANY chipset for a year.

It's how it is with all software development where multiple companies
try and bring something together at the same time but have different
schedules and priorities; some things get left behind.

> I suppose if you look at it from another perspective; if Novell were to
> release SLED 11, they likely wouldn't do it until all of the graphics
> chip makers were lined up and had provided drivers. So in that respect I
> guess we get what we pay for :|

Fortunately the free Radeon drivers work great if you're running something
lower than an r500.

All the X2400 and X3400 owners are out of luck, and need to wait for AMD
to do something, but the rest of us can run Compiz all we like. And the
nVidia guys.. well.. they really are up the creek.

> My concern is that regardless of whatever perfectly reasonable
> explanations there are for these things, its always a frustration for
> the end users that their graphics cards don't work etc. etc.

Like I said it's not just because it's Linux.

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