If it ain't broke, don't fix it?
Apr. 6th, 2009 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI have a dilemma about my laptop. Gentoo has announced that its standard windowing server, X, will now be X server 1.5. I'm running version 1.3. As time goes by, products and services that depend upon X will start to use faculties of the later server and I'll be unable to install them on my box. I'm already having some problems with some games.
But my laptop has an ATI video card. The driver I'm using, 8.476, has been amazingly stable for months now. Every time I've upgraded, it's always been the ATI driver's conflict with the hibernate/suspend driver that's made this thing crash. Now, they SAY that driver 8.522 is "stable" as well, but I don't trust it and upgrading to it would be a bear, because if it doesn't work backing out will be one huge goddamned pain in the neck.
But my laptop has an ATI video card. The driver I'm using, 8.476, has been amazingly stable for months now. Every time I've upgraded, it's always been the ATI driver's conflict with the hibernate/suspend driver that's made this thing crash. Now, they SAY that driver 8.522 is "stable" as well, but I don't trust it and upgrading to it would be a bear, because if it doesn't work backing out will be one huge goddamned pain in the neck.
