Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:27:54PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
> 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 youu have the fglrx, fglrxG01 and fglrxG02 packages.

And nvidia-gfx, nvidia-gfxG01, nvidia-gfxG02.

> 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, 

No, this would be the first step. Second step would be to find
someone, who does the packaging work.

> 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.

Well, get rid of proprietary drivers is what the open source community
wants ...

Stefan

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