When will Fedora work again?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 20:38:26 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:33 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:

> I would point out the potential trap with leaving something broken for
> a long time, and relying on widely published workarounds.  It can reduce
> the likelyhood of many of the folks affected ever testing the fixes when
> they do arrive.  In my experience, a significant number of folks will
> leave things in the working state until they next do a fresh install of
> a subsequent release on that box.  If they simply update, the workaround
> might well continue to be used for the life of that box.

I agree - I'm mainly suggesting this for the diagnostic value, which is
why I asked that the info be added to the bug report. If changing the
acceleration method fixes the problem, then the developers know the
issue is likely in the EXA code somewhere.
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