Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:13:05AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> 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

If you're interested in becoming a beta tester for the fglrx driver,
just let me know. Then you can play the proxy between the openSUSE
community and ATI and will notice that ATI ignores the feedback of
beta testers as well.

Best regards,
Stefan

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