| work_alkisg | Is it possible to downgrade Xorg in 14.04 to the version shipped in 12.04.0, so that all the cards that need XAA are supported? | 10:18 |
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| jcristau | that's called installing 12.04 | 10:24 |
| alkisg | jcristau: it's not the same, e.g. 12.04 doesn't support newer CPUs, printers etc | 10:27 |
| jcristau | newer cpu but 15 year old gpu? | 10:31 |
| alkisg | Yup, sorry, 1000+ schools with that scenario :-/ | 10:31 |
| jcristau | eww | 10:32 |
| alkisg | It's not only the CPU though, we could stay with 12.04 and the -lts-trusty kernel, but we also have printers that are not supported by the older libsane-hpaio, or we want the latest edu* packages, etc... | 10:33 |
| alkisg | Anyway, is downgrading xorg possible? | 10:33 |
| alkisg | Or it's out of the question? | 10:33 |
| tseliot | alkisg: what gpus are we talking about? | 10:35 |
| jcristau | alkisg: i don't think it's really reasonable | 10:36 |
| jcristau | plus they might be better off with shadowfb than xaa anyway, since a recent cpu is oh so much faster than those gpus | 10:36 |
| alkisg | tseliot: many many sis (some of them crashing even with the latest patch for exa), some s3virge, trident... | 10:36 |
| * alkisg searches for a list of xaa-only cards to see which of them are found in school labs here... | 10:37 | |
| tseliot | alkisg: it's probably easier to put libsane and the edu packages in a PPA for Precise, and have the computers use them | 10:37 |
| alkisg | Gotcha. Thank you guys, we already have a PPA where we put newer versions of packages, we'll put more packages there | 10:38 |
| alkisg | Ah, is the 12.04 with stock xorg + the -lts-trusty kernel a bit reasonable? | 10:38 |
| jcristau | that should be fine i would say | 10:38 |
| tseliot | yes, it should work | 10:39 |
| alkisg | Thanks! :) | 10:39 |
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| pkern | xorg lts-trusty is in -proposed. Is that already mature enough to be pushable? (/me "accidentially" migrated his fleet to lts-saucy, and that's to be deprecated soonish anyway...) | 19:11 |
| Sarvatt | "works for me" but it probably wont go through major testing till closer to the august 7th release :) mlankhorst might know whats holding it up from getting into -updates or if there are any problems with it currently | 20:11 |
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