> > Some paranoid GNU/Linux users say that these kinds of blogs are written > by Microsoft puppets. Myth busted. :)
That's okay. I always felt like happy GNU users were either lying or in denial, too. I'm unsure whether that's the case or I'm just a strong bogon source<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html>after so much exposure to Windows :( Atenciosamente / Sincerely, Guilherme Prá Vieira <http://www.linkedin.com/in/n2liquid> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/n2liquid> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be>wrote: > Op Fri, 27 Dec 2013 02:57:59 -0200 > schreef Guilherme Vieira <super.driver....@gmail.com>: > > > Stallman says all the time that "the GNU community is great, you can > > ask them anything and they'll come up with a solution." Well, I've > > explained my HDMI problems in this list before, but nobody answered. > > I know gNewSense is a small distro with a small, very busy community, > > but oh man, *how can an HDMI output not work?* This is so *shameful*. > > How can "grandma with her Yeeloong" use this system if the HDMI > > output needs troubleshooting? > > I did read your email about your HDMI problem. It was obvious you > are capable of tracing the bug pretty far into the system and I could > not think of a way to help you any further. > > I've been fortunate that I've not had to deal with HDMI (and the > HDCP that comes with it) yet. Choosing my hardware carefully makes me > less in touch with what grandma may have spinning under/on her desk. > Avoiding HDMI is becoming less of an option each day and I suspect that > in your case it's not so much HDMI in itself that is the problem, but > rather the graphics card (or the motherboard) as a whole. That's hard > to debug without having the machine at hand and some intimate knowledge > of Xorg, Linux and the hardware type in brain. > > > Seriously, there has got to be a community of people who focus on this > > issue. WHERE IS IT? I'll throw at them all the money I've got and > > I'll help with everything in my reach, but it's gotta exist first. > > > > A community that will pick, say, Xorg, and say "okay, we will make > > this work on such and such and such platforms, and it will be > > guaranteed to work and be tested on those platforms, and you will be > > allowed to change such and such configuration parameters and that's > > it." Such configuration parameters should be grandma-friendly, be > > incapable of bricking the graphical interface, and have a graphical > > interface to tweak them. It shall be called Xorg-unf**ked or > > Xorg-that-actually-works. > > I think good (or at least publicly available) hardware specs would go a > long way in solving graphics problems. If you want to spend money, give > it to projects that create hardware with freedom/openness as a core > value [1]. > > > I won't turn back anymore. I've made a vow that I will only use libre > > software and I'll play by it, forever. I'll work around issues when I > > can, actually fix stuff when I can't work around them (I *did* debug > > my GPU kernel objects before giving up,) and I'll plainly accept that > > some technologies are out of reach when all of that fails (which is > > what happened to my HDMI output.) > > > > When Xorg was unstable and I couldn't figure why, I almost fell back > > to the Linux console. I already use vim anyway, so I intended to use > > a framebuffer browser there, such as Firefox with GTK on DirectFB and > > play music using mpd and such. Luckily, I found a way to work around > > the problem, at the cost of my external monitor. I guess everything > > has a price :) I'm willing to go very far for freedom, as you can see. > > Excellent. > > > But I do wonder: How is everybody using GNU and managing not to be as > > pissed up as I am? By God, what am I missing? I used to blog about the > > problems I encountered in my GNU adventures here (but stopped): > > n2liquid.wordpress.com/category/gnu-drama/. > > Some paranoid GNU/Linux users say that these kinds of blogs are written > by Microsoft puppets. Myth busted. :) > > > P.S.: Please don't take this too personally. I know the gNewSense > > community can only do so much, and I'm glad it does what it does (it > > *is* my distro of choice, after all,) but I really, really need to > > take this out of my chest from time to time. And I wanted to meet > > good counter arguments to all that or like-minded people who want to > > try to solve this problem somehow. > > Thanks for your faith in the gNewSense community. We do what we can. > > [1] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users >
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