On 09/23/2010 03:08 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:06:52PM -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 9/23/2010 2:55 PM, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Vadym Krevs wrote:
IMHO, this could have been handled differently. E.g., the updated kernel could have been released once an updated ATI driver was available.
As to a patch - well, it is easy to find and apply, if you're a software engineer like myself. What about the average Joe user ... So much for the strategy statement: "The target users of the openSUSE distribution are people who need to get work done and want something *stable* and usable for their every day needs."
"Joe user" would use the pre-built packages. From what I understand, they will continue working without needing a recompile, since the affected function was an inline function before, so the code is already inside the driver. As far as I know it will continue working without needing any change (but I don't currently have any ATI cards, so I can't back this up from personal experience, it is just what I have heard reported).
Anders
The prebuilt ATI packages wont install either Anders.
Really? WHat is the error?
That leaves you with their Driver Loader packages. The driver loader package ATI distributes builds drivers on the fly and it fails too. If I roll back one kernel, it will (maybe) build.
Joe user would be stuck using the open source drivers and forgo compositing and run it as a 2D card. (Grousing all the while).
We figured and tested that the existing driver would still work, but apparently this did not apply to all cases.
AMD/ATI also has a patch for the issue to their driver.
Ciao, Marcus
I can't speak to all cards, but in my case their driver does not exist for my Mobility Radeon x1400 card any more and I had to use their package to built RPMs and then install those for the last several versions of opensuse. See this ARchives thread of yesterday: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2010-09/msg01430.html I can't go to AMD and download anything. masterpatricko site, quoted in above archive message works for 2.6.33 but not 34. The ATI repository has nothing for my card. See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers -- Explain again the part about rm -rf / -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org