Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> I don't see what the openSUSE community can do here. ATI is only
> interested in bugs, if they affect and being reported by big vendors
> like e.g. HP. But these big vendors are only interested in using
> SLES/SLED.

Hmm..

        Stefan, I'm not sure I follow here. Isn't openSuSE the forerunner for 
what
will end up in SLES/SLED? If so, it just seems to make more sense from a
quality assurance perspective to address any issues at the beta (openSuSE)
stage before they end up having to (react) to problems with SLES/SLED. The
proactive/reactive issue. Moving the bug identification/resolution a bit
further upstream if you will.

        The absolute crushing blow ATI is dealing its users by dropping support 
for
all R300-R500 cards is simply amazing. Nvidia still provides support for all it
cards with the legacy driver. If there is ever a contact at ATI it would be
worth suggesting a similar "legacy driver". That just seems like common sense.
But then that too is uncommon in todays world. (i.e. a global economy built on
"credit default swaps" -- give me a break...)

        Hopefully we can find someone with a fglrx.com email address that will
entertain some candid feedback and suggestions instead of the current "linux
driver feedback" which from what I can tell == /dev/null

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