Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Susanne Oberhauser <froh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:24:41PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
> > Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:39:49PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
> > > > Now what we _can_ do is, we start building the different ati driver
> > > > versions in parallel in an obs project:
> > > >
> > > > project:  ati-fglrx
> > > > packages:
> > > >   ati-fglrx-8.8
> > > >   ati-fglrx-8.9
> > > >   ati-fglrx-8.10
> > > >   ati-fglrx-9.1
> > > >   ati-fglrx-9.2
> > > > ..
> > >
> > > Unfortunately we can't do this for fglrx driver and probably any
> > > proprietary driver in obs. So either for this we would need a 3rd
> > > party buildservice or convince ATI to host such a system of repos.
> >
> > packman?
>
> How many years do I know provide the RPMs "sources" in
> X11:Drivers:Video for building the fglrx locally via osc or a 3rd
> party buildservice (same for nvidia, btw)?

For quite a while and it's a real cool thing, an excellent starting
point.

Currently oyu have the fglrx, fglrxG01 and fglrxG02 packages.

In _theory_ each of them is covering a larger number of chipsets.  In
practice, the current versions break some older card.

Now the question would be if it would be hard to 'save' the package when
a new driver version comes out, e.g. in some X11:Drivers:Video:Previous?


Finding a project to eventually host the resulting binaries will then be
the next step, and we'll need to explain why this is a good thing for
the adoption of Linux, and how this actually supports the open source
community.


Makes sense?


S
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