Bug#412069: patch for beryl support
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > My point is that if we don't figure that out satisfactorily in time, we could
> > just enable the Composite extension, which sounds fairly safe, and seems to be
> > enough for Intel cards. And Intel happens to be the card brand we have the
> > best driver support for (compared to a RE'd driver for ATI and nothing for
> > nVidia), so focusing on it makes sense to me.
>
> Yes, that should be mostly safe at this point. The only exception that
> comes to mind offhand is that fglrx disables the DRI when Composite is
> enabled.
If we have to choose between optimizing for free drivers that work sanely
(either intel or radeon) and non-free drivers that are partly broken, I
think it's clear what is better.
Ok with enabling Composite by default then?
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Robert Millan
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