On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. What? The way I understand it is that you could simply use the xorg on F8 with F9 without needing to recompile anything (except maybe other xorg packages)? I thought someone had already taken this approach from what I've read in the fedora forums. Obviously if you have to recompile every app that runs on X this would not be feasible, but I understand that this is not actually the case? Please enlighten me. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
