On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Christopher Stone <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:23:47PM -0400, Jason Tang wrote: >>> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current >>> nvidia drivers. Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding >>> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's >>> confidence in the dev team. >>> >>> Most users could care less about supposed 'valid' reasons - that fact >>> is: No 3D acceleration == No F9 adoption (or worse, an eroding user >>> base). Lets not play this game with F10. >> >> Well I'm an Intel & Radeon user and Xorg in F9 is dramatically better >> better for all my machines. So, yes, if new code improves life for the >> open source drivers, lets do this again & again in future releaes. I don't >> want my desktop experiance held hostage by one company with binary drivers. >> I chose hardware which is supportable so I can get the best & latest open >> source has to offer. > > Why the H.E. double hockey sticks do people think proving > compatibility packages for nVidia users will somehow hold the desktop > hostage for everyone else? > > I do not understand why ajax could not provide compatibility rpms for > nVidia users? Is he not paid by redhat? I mean just how difficult > can it be to provide F8 xorg rpms on F9 for nVidia users?? > He is paid by Red Hat to work on X, not to be your personal slave. You want that find out what it costs first.. I am guessing around 100k/year for that kind of nightmare. Otherwise stay with F8 until your card is supported. Especially since he would need to make sure that pretty much every X app is compiled twice with one with the old API and one with the new one. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
