On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:19 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 5/2/07, dragoran dragoran <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > maybe adding a warning when turning it on in system-config-display might > > help? > > a popup like "if you are using this driver your computer might explode; you > > have been warned!" > > well not this but something similar (someone who doesn't know what he is > > doing wouldn't enable it in xorg.conf) > > And my answer to this.... if anyone is manually selecting a driver > from the list..ever... then its that user's responsbility to know > whether its going to work or not. If you are going through the > trouble of picking your own driver, you sure as hell better have a > solid idea as to what driver to pick instead of blithely scanning over > the driver names and assuming a particular driver is the one you want. > > The auto-detection is doing the right thing, its setting up the nv > driver. I see no reason to protect users from themselves when they are > delibrately exploring non-recommended options. You might as well put a > warning up for each and every driver that a user manually selects > regardless of the hardware they are using. > > I'm still not too thrilled about the potential here to see this driver > updated multiple times as f7 updates, that all users will need to > consume even though its not a part of any hardware auto-detection > scheme. Is there anyway we can make this driver optional, so that > default install targets don't include it and only people who want to > screw around with it get it installed? Why do you think the driver will have to be continuously revved in F7 ? I would assume that we keep tracking nouveau development in rawhide, and only push F7 updates when there is a major step forward in features or stability that makes it worthwhile. Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
