26 Feb
2009
26 Feb
'09
5:57 p.m.
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.