[Openchrome-users] Integrated K8M890 does not work.

[Xavier Bachelot]

Ondrej Wisniewski wrote:
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> mauman wrote:
>>> Re: Integrated K8M890 does not work.
>>> success!
>>>
>>> I downloaded the latest svn version and I successfully compiled! now the driver works, visual effects are not enabled but I do not care, it is fine for me!
>>>
>>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH
>>>
>>>
>>> Maurizio
>>>
>> Glad to hear it works :-)
>> Don't forget to file a bug in Ubuntu so other users will have a better 
>> experience than you did.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xavier
> 
> Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) already has the latest version of OpenChrome in the 
> repos:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/1:0.2.901-0ubuntu4
> 
Hardy is still not released, afaik.

> I don't think there will be a backport to Gutsy (7.10).

If no one files bug reports, indeed, there will never be a backport.

> But there is a 
> nice install script floating around:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=485646&highlight=openchrome
> 
An install script buried in some forum is not exactly what I would 
describe as nice for a end-user, especially the kind of users Ubuntu is 
targeting at. No offense intended to the script's author, obviously, 
it's better than nothing, but far from perfect.
Shipping an outdated version when a much better one with support for 
more IGPs has been released doesn't fit my description of user-friendly 
either. Either way, I don't really care, I'm not an Ubuntu user, but 
endlessly answering the same basic installation questions when it would 
be so simple for the distro package maintainer to just build an updated 
package is a waste of time. This applies to other distribution than Ubuntu.

I hope you get my point ;-)

Regards,
Xavier