Rahul wrote: > Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been following the AIGLX repository discussion from the sideline. >> And I'm a bit shocked by what I'm reading there. There seems to be >> strong support for releasing Xorg 7.1 as an update for FC-5 even though >> that will break both NVidea and Ati binary drivers. For the records all >> my computers have a radeon 9200 running OSS drivers. > > Kernel updates have been breaking non-free drivers all the time. There > are a number of other changes that broke other third party packages. I > dont quite understand why there is no much shock on potential of Xorg > updates breaking such proprietary drivers. > Yes, They do which is bad enough from an end user POv. But which aslo is fixable, usually by booting the old kernel, wait for a day or two that other repo todo the work and tada magicly fixed. Not quite perfect, but close. NVidea doesn't have drivers which will work with 7.1 planned for a month and Ati probably will be even slower. Also one cannot just reboot into that older kernel, so there is a HUGE difference here. Anyways I explicitly asked not to discuss this in this thread this belongs in a seperate thread. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
