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 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 -- 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