Re: Gnome Shell and Catalyst

[Ionut Biru <ionut archlinux ro>]

On 09/10/2011 11:42 AM, Alexandros Mittos wrote:
> Hello Gnome devs and Gnome community.
>
> I won't begin to describe you how much I love Gnome Shell, the great and
> innovative work you have done etc. This mail is to address a serious
> issue regarding Gnome Shell and Catalyst drivers. As it is known
> Catalyst, almost 7 months after the release of Gnome 3.0 does not get
> along with Shell. The bug has been submited here
> <http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99> since April but it was until
> the 22th of August (check comment 65) until we get a proper answer from
> AMD. Pierre Bourdier said that the problem will be fixed with the next
> version of Catalyst but the interesting part was this, and I quote:
> "/finally, the crux of the issue here is that gnome developers should
> have actually contacted AMD about this issue before releasing something
> which only works on nvidia./"

this is actually moot. At the beginning gnome-shell didn't work well 
with nvidia but _nvidia developers_, with the help of the community(who 
reported on their forums), fixed the driver in the development version 
of gnome towards 3.0.


> Have Gnome devs responded to that? Who has to be blamed for this
> unacceptable bug that has taken so long to be fixed?

IMO it's AMD job to test their driver or have a proper public bugtracker 
in which they track issues like this.

> Thank you in advance and greetings from Greece.
>
> Alexandros Mittos
> OSArena.net <http://osarena.net/>
>
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