On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 13:54, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
It happened again: Ubuntu released a not yet published driver to their unstable repos to prepare the 9.04 isos. See
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE0Nw
The driver were not even published to the AMD beta program. Not one word on the list about any progress with Xorg 1.6. That makes sense how they treat the community beside the holy Canonical.
Well. Our community picked it already up and pushed a package to AUR and I think this time it's not a license violation because Ubuntu will have received a special ok to publish this driver.
So now I'm going to remove the drivers from extra very soon. Any objections?
I'm also going to ask to remove my account from the "beta program". It's a pity that our community will loose this last chance to catch the non existent support.
If you want fun, read http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_beta_declassified&num=1
Read the 2nd page and think about "what the program is not"...
I'm done with this closed crap now.
-Andy
I can just see the headlines now, "Arch Linux calls ATI crap, drops support for graphics"