[Mageia-dev] Features

[Colin Guthrie]

'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.

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.

Perhaps someone can do some clever edits on the binaries to make them
work with the newer xserver...

Col

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