2009/10/21 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hardware incompatibility is a fact of life for that, and that's okay. I > don't think we should wait until the end of time for those issues to be > sorted out. But if we know Nvidia cards tend to cause a bad experience, > couldn't we have detected the card early on, and maybe presented some > kind of, 'Hey, you've got this piece of hardware. It might cause you > some issues. You might want to check this wiki page (or whatever) for a > list of common problems and workarounds for this card. Sorry that this > had to make your experience with us a little bumpy, but let's get you > around it!' Well...it's tricky because this stuff changes so rapidly, and we may simply not know how well a particular card works with a particular version of the driver. Then of course multiply that matrix by configuration like multihead... I guess a lot comes down to the details. Are we just special casing PCI vendor == nvidia? Or something more elaborate? Graphics is especially tricky, because linking to a wiki page is obviously problematic if the driver is failing entirely, since you wouldn't be able to see our error page... In the end graphics just has to work. I think we should spend time on big picture issues that impact all users (e.g. root password, upgrade experience); there's a lot of great work going on by all accounts in the nouveau driver, and it's likely F12 would work better for him already. > Same with the anaconda crashes he was having in the partitioning screen. > Apparently it was a known issue: > > > > How could we expect him to know to even look for the known issues wiki > page? How would he know it existed? This one is much more targeted would probably be fairly easy to do. Doesn't anaconda already have a crash handler that submits to bugzilla? We'd just need a link on the bugzilla page for anaconda to its common bugs list in the wiki. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
