On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:27:54PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
Hi Stefan,
Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de> writes:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:24:41PM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de> 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 Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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