On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:38:07AM -0500, Chase Douglas wrote: > A second proposal I'd like to make would be integrating some of these drivers > into jockey. Right now jockey proposes proprietary, marginally supported > drivers > for ubuntu. This is similar to lbm in that the drivers provided are not > supported to the same level as the default modules provided by linux-image. > There are many cases, however, where the lbm drivers may solve issues for > ubuntu > users. Unfortunately, lbm is not really advertised anywhere. I believe it > would > be useful for users to have the option through jockey to install backport > modules, with all the disclaimers of level of support. This helps us not only > by > providing a possibly better experience for end users when lbm fixes their > issues, but also through testing. We would be more likely to see bug reports > like, "My hardware doesn't work in lucid until I install lbm". We can find > and > vet individual fixes more easily and integrate them into the linux-image > package. > > This would be very useful for cases where the intel drivers in linux-image > can't > be fixed due to non-trivial backporting of patches, but the updated drivers > could still be provided through lbm. Jockey could look for graphics chipsets > that we know function better through lbm and then suggest them to the user > just > like it's done today for proprietary drivers.
That's not a bad idea. I was wondering myself how we'd expose the availability of new lbm bits to end users, and this approach seems quite sensible. Pitti, what are your thoughts on this proposal? Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
