Am Sonntag, den 04.05.2008, 19:29 +0200 schrieb Kristian Lyngstøl: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Nick Bauermeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 04.05.2008, 18:37 +0200 schrieb Kristian Lyngstøl: > > > Michael / Travis, I'm interested in find a better solution for this, > > > could one (or both) of you clear this up a bit for me, or even better > > > if you got bug reports etc to point to, and I'll look into it. I have > > > three laptops all using the ati driver myself, and I do see issues, > > > but maybe we could pinpoint this further... > > > > I'm neither Michael nor Travis, but here's the relevant LP report: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201330 > > Already read this, it does not explain why blacklisting every card is > better than blacklisting some PCI Id's. > > The main argument for not blacklisting PCI ID's are that there are > cards with identical id's where one work and the other doesn't.
That simply is the reason for the blacklist. As you can see, the bug has been filed around Hardy's beta phase. So there was not enough time to gather all info to blacklist only affected PCI IDs. After all, there was no hint that the problem is limited to the known PCI IDs. > But > then it makes absolutely zero sense to blacklist the entire driver > instead, since that means blacklisting even more cards that are known > to work. Blacklisting does not mean you won't be able to run Compiz at all on your machine, so I really don't see the fuzz here. The original problem is Ubuntu's decision to enable Compiz by default. That decision already led to blacklisting multiple cards in the past. Ubuntu's policy has always been to rather blacklist a chip then ruin the experience for the user. This is no different. So there were two available options for Hardy: scrap the idea of having Compiz enabled by default or blacklist potential problematic setups (ati/radeon on laptops in this case). > > P.S. Compiz-Check [1] takes care of this. > > > > [1] http://forlong.blogage.de/article/pages/Compiz-Check > > This just mimicks the functionality that Ubuntu added, so not sure > what it takes care of. It does take care of the problem for you as it (1) detects it, (2) tells you about it and (3) fixes it for you by offering to skip the blacklist of /usr/bin/compiz on Ubuntu. Kind regards, Nick _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.compiz-fusion.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
