"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> writes:
Now for openSuSE, currently there is no upgrade path beyond 11.0 for users effected by the 8-10 to 9-3 driver issues, because the 8-9 driver does NOT support xorg 7.4. The only fglrx driver offering that opensuse has is for the 2400+ Series cards. (Guess how many laptops have 2400+ Series GPUs -- very, very few)
Did we ever discuss to build the current user space for the older X and kernel? I'm asking because on the older systems there is no big value in current kernel or just X --- usually, what worked with 10.0 or 10.1 or 10.2 works today and what didn't work doesn't, but there is a huge desire for current applications. I understand that if kernel system management APIs have changed (like /proc or /sys or ioctls), then tools that rely on that (udev/hal/dbus stack, YaST, alsa stack) need tweaks to work with theolder X and/or kernel. But I think it's just unrealistic to really change such component vendors. The only thing that we can realistically change is ourselves and how we deal with these realities. So what if we pick a kernel and X that will be around for a while (like the ones that are coincidential with sle release, hint, hint) and give this current-userspace-on-dated-systems a spin? Q then would be: what is the delineation line from user space to sys mgmgt and hardware abstraction... S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org