Reminds me of the bad old days where progress was slower than death...
Nvidia's driver has VDPAU for HD video playback and it can be used even with 2.6.30 kernel...
ATI lags behind again, where the hell is XvBA(HD video playback)?? When will it be usable??
Fedora 11 is one month old now, where is the support to a major Linux distro??
One more thing, nvidia ,which is a hated company to me for many reasons, does never report support to a distro but their newer drivers say support for newer cards, newer Xorg version, newer Kernels, newer OpenGL. In general the key system parts every distro contains RPM style or DEB style..
Guys there in ATI understand something, linux distros are made of common pieces of software and the systems follow a common build structure, you don't need to test each distro separately all the time and report that oh it is ok for openSUSE 11.1 let's say cause like that it will take you a lot of time to test the driver and slow the development process.
Just read what the X new let's say distro contains, Kernel, Xserver key parts generally, install them under one distro and test the driver!! So simple! And also you can develop it faster like that...
We are not Windoze here, 98-NT or Vista other drivers and so on...
Also most of us are not technically newbies and if there are newbies our communities can easily help them understand some basic technical things.
For example I use openSUSE 11.1 which ships with Xserver 1.5.2 but I use Xserver 1.6.2 right now, I just upgraded the packages from a dedicated Xorg repo SUSE has, just a few clicks...
Nvidia's driver has VDPAU for HD video playback and it can be used even with 2.6.30 kernel...
ATI lags behind again, where the hell is XvBA(HD video playback)?? When will it be usable??
Fedora 11 is one month old now, where is the support to a major Linux distro??
One more thing, nvidia ,which is a hated company to me for many reasons, does never report support to a distro but their newer drivers say support for newer cards, newer Xorg version, newer Kernels, newer OpenGL. In general the key system parts every distro contains RPM style or DEB style..
Guys there in ATI understand something, linux distros are made of common pieces of software and the systems follow a common build structure, you don't need to test each distro separately all the time and report that oh it is ok for openSUSE 11.1 let's say cause like that it will take you a lot of time to test the driver and slow the development process.
Just read what the X new let's say distro contains, Kernel, Xserver key parts generally, install them under one distro and test the driver!! So simple! And also you can develop it faster like that...
We are not Windoze here, 98-NT or Vista other drivers and so on...
Also most of us are not technically newbies and if there are newbies our communities can easily help them understand some basic technical things.
For example I use openSUSE 11.1 which ships with Xserver 1.5.2 but I use Xserver 1.6.2 right now, I just upgraded the packages from a dedicated Xorg repo SUSE has, just a few clicks...
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