Comments on: To upgrade or not to upgrade? http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/23/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/ David's Software Development Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:11:13 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/23/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-351 David Mon, 25 May 2009 07:05:39 +0000 http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=425#comment-351 @Carl I can try with a live CD, of course! Now I feel a bit silly. Thanks! @Carl

I can try with a live CD, of course! Now I feel a bit silly. Thanks!

]]> By: Carl Ådahl http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/23/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Carl Ådahl Mon, 25 May 2009 06:54:45 +0000 http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=425#comment-350 I see what you mean. :/ Maybe popping in a gNewSense live CD would give you a preview of how it'd work.. hm. I see what you mean. :/

Maybe popping in a gNewSense live CD would give you a preview of how it’d work.. hm.

]]> By: David http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/23/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-346 David Sun, 24 May 2009 17:46:03 +0000 http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=425#comment-346 @Carl I think that the X.Org ABI changes will prevent me from running an older version of the proprietary driver. Compositing is not so important for me so I haven't examined such support in the Open Source driver. Things will probably work with the Open Source driver but I don't really have the time to fix my system if it doesn't work after upgrading. @Carl

I think that the X.Org ABI changes will prevent me from running an older version of the proprietary driver.

Compositing is not so important for me so I haven’t examined such support in the Open Source driver.

Things will probably work with the Open Source driver but I don’t really have the time to fix my system if it doesn’t work after upgrading.

]]> By: Carl Ådahl http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/05/23/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Carl Ådahl Sun, 24 May 2009 17:01:20 +0000 http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=425#comment-345 Can you roll back to an earlier driver? Maybe there will be problems with the recent xorg ABI changes. I've had my share of problems with graphics drivers for Linux, as the NVIDIA proprietary package has had broken suspend and bad dirty rect handling for far too long. I don't even know if it's working yet, haven't seen any artifacts and suspend only breaks one out of five times (yay). Of course if you ask RMS and gang, an open source driver is preferable at any cost, but I'm not willing to lose compositing (Compiz). Can you roll back to an earlier driver? Maybe there will be problems with the recent xorg ABI changes.

I’ve had my share of problems with graphics drivers for Linux, as the NVIDIA proprietary package has had broken suspend and bad dirty rect handling for far too long. I don’t even know if it’s working yet, haven’t seen any artifacts and suspend only breaks one out of five times (yay).

Of course if you ask RMS and gang, an open source driver is preferable at any cost, but I’m not willing to lose compositing (Compiz).

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