On 02/25/2012 07:05 AM, david wrote: > On 02/24/2012 10:18 AM, hermann wrote: >> Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 09:35 -1000 schrieb david: >>> I do. They should just keep up the NV drivers that DO work until the >>> Nouveau drivers also work AND SUPPORT THE SAME HARDWARE, instead of >>> dropping NV completely. >> >> You are free to download the source here : >> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xserver-xorg-video-nv >> >> and patch it to make it work on debian/sid. >> Then, you gone be a part of "They" ;-) > > Nice fantasy. I used to be able to read C++ code, but that was long ago. > > I think the real problem is that like a few other Linux communities (and > Mac OS X and Windows), Debian doesn't listen to users. I've made quite the opposite experience; most if not all Debian-maintainers that I - either as user or developer - have communicated with are very open and responsive to feedback. What goes around, comes around. > And the decision > to replace a "known working product" with a "flaky experimental product" > makes me question their project management abilities, too. hell yeah, shit happens :) Related to this discussion, Jake Edge has just written a very good article called "Changes and complaints": https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/482557/7474ad08811a6570/ > A friend of mine doesn't run Sid, he runs the current Stable, and that > apparently doesn't include NV, either. > > Reminds me the KDE4 fiasco: KDE stopped supporting KDE3 the moment > KDE4.0 shipped, but KDE4 didn't become ready for primetime until 4.5. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
