On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2) What about adding some basic hardware testing to these test cases? >>> For example, vga out support never survives a release or two before >>> being killed by X progressing, in my experience, but it is very >>> important for the whole academic community which is one of the primary >>> targets of linux-based environments at the moment. As of now, I own >>> three different laptops, of different ages. For different bugs none of >>> them can project on a VGA projector in hardy, and ALL of them have been >>> able in past releases. This gives a very bad impression of ubuntu to >>> newcomers. >> >> And whatever changes in Xorg broke VGA for you fixed it for a bunch of >> us. For the first time ever, I have VGA out. > > And do you really think that it was impossible to fix it without > breaking stuff for others?
I'm sure there's a way to make them all work, but it's not surprising to me that in changing Xorg around to make VGA work on one chip it'd break it for another chip. The driver that's in use has to have some effect, and the code would have to be very very specific on how to handle each combination of model and driver. Then take into account the drivers. If he's using a closed source driver, it could be the driver's fault, and how would we prove that? And if it's Nvidia, good luck getting them to respond to a bug report telling them that their newer drivers broke VGA out. -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
