[scribus] Best Linux distro for Scribus

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
Fri Dec 4 08:16:07 CET 2009


Am Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009 08:08:21 schrieb Jeffrey Silverman:
> Oops, I said I wasn't going to comment on this thread anymore, but I
> am anyway. On accident, ok?
>
> This "isn't any drivers" comment is nonsensical. Perhaps your Linux
> distro does not have the appropriate drivers easily available? KDE is
> a layer way up high above where the device drivers live, and isn't
> relevant in a discussion on drivers. Unless I'm missing something
> here...
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Richard <eyelagui at adinet.com.uy> wrote:
> > The mistake is not kde4, is the use of it before it came to stable and
> > the ammount of changes upcoming.
> > Also, it requires a new approach on kernel and drivers, so much hardware
> > that was working on KDE3 is not working on KDE4, the sample is any ATI
> > graphics card older than x15XX (or around it) and/OR RS690 chipset.
> > Me and a lot of people is being affected by the lack of drivers for that
> > chipset and graphics card wich were working and existed on KDE3 but not
> > on KDE4.
> > I mean, ATI made it's last driver for KDE 3.5 but is not compatible with
> > KDE4.
> > So if i want a full capable graphics card i have to keep on KDE 3 AND i
> > cant use my laptop because THERE IS NOT correct ACPI management for my
> > chipset now.
> > Anyhow, there is an opensource driver, but again, it was working fine on
> > KDE 3.5 but not on KDE 4.
>
> <snip!>

Please stop this crappy discussion or continue somewhere else.

Christoph




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