On Saturday 29 August 2009 19:05:54 Juan Erbes wrote:
What future has a distribution that does not allow to use the full power of hardware, and its developers wash their hands by blaming ATI, where the problem stems from a change in the kernel, and not in the driver?
A kernel change in a current version would perhaps require a fix or workaround. But here we're dealing with a new kernel - ATI simply hasn't produced a driver that supports 2.6.31 yet. It is up to them to update their driver to fit the new kernel. It is not up to linux distributions to emulate older kernel versions just because a driver doesn't get updated. There are patches for the driver floating around. This one is from an Ubuntu forum http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29957902/fglrx- installer_8.632-0ubuntu2~dinxter2.debdiff The patch is completely broken, but fortunately the broken code never gets compiled on 2.6.31, so because of the broken cpp logic, the end effect of the patch is to simply delete the line p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); The Ubuntu bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx- installer/+bug/394985 claims that this works for them. Maybe you can recompile the driver with that one-line patch Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org