This weekend I decided to add Alan Cox's 'via' driver for VIA EPIA onboard video to the Fedora development XFree86 builds, including DRI support. The first package (4.3.0-56) went missing the actual DRI driver, oops. The second package (4.3.0-57) has everything, however the Red Hat buildsystem underwent a massive nonstop mass-rebuild of all RPM packages on all 7 architectures over the weekend and essentially turned into molten lava, making it impossible to get any official RPMs built for people.

I'm currently investigating http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115769 as more and more people are reporting this issue, and the trend is likely to start increasing. 4.3.0-57 will have a debugging patch included which will hopefully shed some light on the problems.

Lately I've been overly-irritated by angry Radeon users who have UNSUPPORTED video cards [Radeon 9[268]00(SE|XT)]. People just want their hardware to work, without any problems, end of story. They don't want "half works", or "kindof works". I had added "partial experimental support" to our radeon driver a while back in hopes that it would work fork people, however I didn't have hardware at the time to test it. Since the new code didn't affect support of cards that were already supported, it seemed to me at the time to be a good idea because it was low-risk for supported hardware, however it would allow some people to use the driver on "some" newer radeons.

Bad idea.

Bugzilla is flooded with bug reports from irate users who can't install Fedora Core on their UNSUPPORTED video card, who think that because the installer can DETECT the card, that the card is supported. They have a demand list longer than my arm. <sigh> So much for my volunteered time to help people. The negativity I've received from people gives me no incentive to prioritize fixing the driver, at least not on MY PERSONAL TIME. So the driver probably wont get any love until it gets allocated _work_ time, which wont be any time soon likely because I have tonnes of higher priority tasks. Oh well.

On the bright side, I had bacon wrapped filet mignon tonight which was amazing. I feel much better now.