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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/27/15 09:06 PM, Warren Marts
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">quoting Nikola :
<div>> <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">without
solution for all existing users. </span><br
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">That's just not
always possible -- I think dropping a bunch of Intel
chipsets that are 6-10 years old and adding support for some
of the newest ones is a good trade off.</span></div>
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I think it is not, if you don't have solution for current installs.
and not a stable distro built in meantime.<br>
And one gets nothing if even new driver does not work yet..<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">An Nvidia
graphics card of the same vintage, say an 8400gt, is I think
still supported by current drivers very well. Outside of the
MS Windows sphere, Nvidia has always been the only safe
choice for graphics. Intel and ATI/AMD have had incomplete,
generally buggy solutions.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">If this topic
goes on, it's best to consider what the appropriate
platforms are given available or potential talent and time.</span></div>
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Intel was always open source and supported well. People using Nvidia
binary drivers are not part of the story, yet many more laptops sold
in previous 10 years have Intel grahics.<br>
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I today did 'pkg freeze' on 20141010 (latest hipster-2014.1 before
hipster-2015)<br>
freezing consolidation/X/X-incorporation and
x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-intel .<br>
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Then I managed to update fine to today's hipster-2015.<br>
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If not making packages inthe future that explicitly depend on newer
(non working) Intel driver and newer X,<br>
then it could be solution for continued testing of Hipster-2015 if
updating from 20141010.<br>
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Alternatively, I vote for older X and intel driver to be instead
inside hipster-2015, since they actually work.<br>
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