2009/7/28 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:58:14 John Mellor wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:23 +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag, den 23.07.2009, 20:13 -0400 schrieb John Mellor: >> I'm ok with this, as long as a non-functioning Radeon-HD card becomes a >> blocker issue. There is no way that F12 should be released without this >> support, and most cards working correctly. > > There was a similar issue with Intel drivers at the time of release of F10, > and it was labeled non-blocking issue back then. F10 was then released with > flaky Intel drivers. IOW, don't get your hopes up. > > Besides, as was the argument for Intel, it is not fair to block the whole > distro only because some graphics cards have problems. All other users > (nVidia, Intel and better-supported ATI owners) are then punished just because > some ATI cards don't work well. > On the other hand I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my nVidia card was supported straight when installing F11 as it was one of the few not supported by the nv (open) driver for a while (the secret of course was the change to nouveau). > You chose the card, you deal with it. I had my fair share of that game with > Intel (and I still do --- it still doesn't work good enough) for more than 6 > months now. It was working perfectly in F9, it broke in F10 (and this was well > known before the release), it stayed broken through F10 and again in F11. As I > cannot change hardware in my laptop, I learned to live with it. I suggest you > do the same. > Which Intel do you have? I've got a 945 which did go through a phase of performing badly, but I think it was better behaved last time I tried turning desktop effects on (F11, I skipped past F10). -- imalone -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
