[Mageia-dev] Features

Wed Jan 16 21:06:10 CET 2013

Op woensdag 16 januari 2013 17:43:36 schreef Thomas Backlund:
+> Colin Guthrie skrev 16.1.2013 17:34:
+> > 'Twas brillig, and mustafaa1987 at yahoo.com at 16/01/13 15:18 did gyre and
+> > 
+> > gimble:
+> >> On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 05:56:34 PM Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
+> >>> On 01/15/2013 03:42 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> >>>> Mustafaa Al-Hamdaani skrev 15.1.2013 14:35:
+> >>>>> Hi,
+> >>>>> Are features still accepted for Mageia 3? I have these three:
+> >>>>> 1) Enable vertical two finger scrolling by default, simple but
+> >>>>> important.
+> >>>>> 2) Desktop greeter (like kaptan of pardus or its fork for Chakra,
+> >>>>> kapudan):
+> >>>>> http://www.chakra-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Kapudan
+> >>>>> 3) catalyst-legacy for AMD cards 4xxx and before.
+> >>>> 
+> >>>> This one depends on AMD.
+> >>>> They have not released any legacy driver since 12.6 last summer,
+> >>>> and that is not supporting x11-server 1.13 we use.
+> >>> 
+> >>> I know, I just hoped we can ship x11-server 1.12 and 1.13 and only one
+> >>> of them is installed, the power consumption with the open source drivers
+> >>> is just insane, especially for a laptop (and the quality too).
+> >> 
+> >> I asked yesterday and the answer was "too late", but if this is
+> >> technically
+> >> possible, I think it will make a huge difference for a big number of
+> >> Mageia
+> >> users, maybe 25% of all users use those AMD cards, so please would you
+> >> reconsider shipping catalyst-legacy if it is technically feasible.
+> >> For such a benefit for the community, I think it worth considering (from
+> >> catalyst maintainer and others).
+> > 
+> > Being realistic, shipping two x servers is simply not going to happen in
+> > time.
+> 
+> or ever...
+> 
+> > It'll need lots of extra work including more h/w detection and automatic
+> > installation of the legacy x server (assuming the user wants the
+> > proprietary drivers only, the free drivers will of course want the
+> > latest xserver instead).
+> > 
+> > I feel it's just too much complication at this late stage to do this.
+> 
+> There is way too much stuff integrated / interacting with x11-server,
+> to sanely provide 2 of them without introducing regressions on
+> either side...
+> 
+> > Perhaps someone can do some clever edits on the binaries to make them
+> > work with the newer xserver...
+> 
+> Nope. No can do... that would violate the license.
+
+it's sad, i too have one that's just not supported by AMD anymore, but that's 
+simply the way it is... AMD doesn't think 3y old hardware needs to be 
+supported, you need to buy new stuff instead... :-(
+
+i found it annoying, but ah well, i'm just running it with open source driver 
+on my media center, and at least the video performence is adequate...
+