On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:57 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:38 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Well, I guess what I was saying is: *can* we even fix it? I mean, if they release a broken driver, we can't exactly patch some closed source blob
I don't think we can fix most problems, but even if we were able to, licensing does not permit us. One example is the use of /usr/lib64 which is plain ugly. We can use sed on the binary files to load it from /usr/lib, but that violates the license because we're not allowed to distribute altered binaries.
Whatever happens, I'm preparing xorg-server 1.6 this week for testing. I don't think AMD supports server-1.6 yet, but Nvidia does, so I see no reason to stick this release in testing as long as we did with server-1.5.
Aaron, what you say is true, I thought they could fix it, but as Jan pointed out, is not legal to alter a blob. Didn't thought it that way so Aaron you are right about moving this to AUR instead. Jan, No catalyst does not support xorg-server-1.6 yet, another example on how bad ATIs support is. I do vote for you not to hold xorg-server that long waiting for them.