On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:26:45PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:33:12AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
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?
Yeah, I'm fine with that, although I think the better method is to enable
it directly in the server by default.
That sounds more like an upstream solution. IMHO, in Debian we should do it
in the conffile because:
- It's more transparent. User can tell this is enabled without going through
the patchset.
- It's easier to disable if it turns out to be a problem (performance?).