Comment 242 for bug 353126
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| Sandro Mani (sandromani) wrote Re: [Bug 353126] Re: Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx driver using X.org prior to release 7.5 | #242 |
Look: software evolves, and sometimes API breaks and things like that
are necessary. While you may be unhappy about the situation, there is
indeed nothing the open community can do if the developers behind the
closed source drivers do not want to react on the issue. That is, if
they really do not want to, maybe the issue has simply not been brought
to their attention. So, please, if you care about this issue being fixed
as we all do here, why do you not take the step and try to obtain at
least some sort of feedback from their developers by posting the problem
there - i.e. for the nvidia driver to start with? I'd to it myself but I
have no nvidia card atm to provide specific information if they require
it, and really, it is not such a big deal to send them a few words.
On 04/20/2010 01:08 PM, Dan Burke wrote:
> This was not brought up at nvnews because it was not originally a Binary
> Blob issue. Whatever was changed in xorg to fix this apparently
> requires a driver fix too.
>
> At any rate, I tested my ATI box and the results were as one might
> predict:
>
> Radeon driver + Compiz: Works
> FGLRX driver + Compix: Does not work
>
> I guess at this point I'll unsubscribe from this thread as any hope at
> getting this fixed has now been lost, since it's going to be categorized
> into that blackhole of "binary driver" issues. I hope whatever changes
> xorg made to fix the original bug are somehow directly made known to all
> driver vendors.
>
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