Re: Gnome 3 vs scientists (ie., external monitor problem)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:37 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 08:54, Artur Wroblewski <wrobell pld-linux org> wrote:
> > imho, it would be nice to list those cards in the faq to warn people
> > who want to upgrade now as crashing software due to card limitations
> > is bad and frustrating experience.
> Nice but actually impossible. Better to fix any bugs found which fixes
> more than one card than to maintain some half-baked compatibility
> matrix.

Well, as a LINUX desktop user for 10 years and professional Systems
Administrator for 17 years.... I'd be very grateful for "some half-baked
compatibility matrix".  Currently the state of debugging / diagnosing
display issues for the end user is just this side of 'impossible'.

Would be a dream come true to have a site where you copied the string
from lspci output, enter your software version(s), and check a few boxes
as to what does work / doesn't work / you-haven't-tried.  And make it
searchable.  

The true problem is the above would only be useful if a large number of
people used it [entered their data].  Creating a centralized repository
of anything is something Open Source has demonstrated it cannot
accomplish.