TwinView discussion

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 07:43 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-27-05 at 13:14 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: 
> > > We don't have to document much. Only:
> 
> > > - that nvidia's code exists
> > > - how to get it
> 
> > Ok, we agreed this was valuable information for our users, but some took
> > the position that it'd be too hard to write.  Now it turns out we have
> > it, and we can't even agree to put a line in the existing documentation
> > saying "man nvidia-xconfig"?
> 
> > I'm really confused here.  I would think mentioning this would be a
> > win-win for us; we get less spurious "TwinView doesn't work" and
> > "documentation on Xinerama not complete" bug reports, our users get ease
> > of use.  What am I missing here?
> 
> You're missing the politics.  Some people are more interested in the
> FSF philosophy than they are in making the lives of end-users simpler.

"We cannot support this code" is not a political statement, it's a
technical fact - we do not have the source.

Lee