On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:40:10 +0000 Paul Worrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| 3d opengl hardware acceleration does not work with the radeon driver
| in  xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4. Bug 82897 suggests this is fixed in
| xorg-x11-6.8.2.  I  maintain a stable system because I don't want to
| spend time diagnosing  problems with it, but when 6.8.0-r4 was marked
| stable and I did an emerge  update, my system stopped working in this
| respect.  Is it Gentoo policy to  mark as 'stable' packages that do
| not work as well as the previous version? 

If the "not work as well" involves binary-only drivers that we can't
fix, then yes.

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