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7 Responses to “ATI 9.1 8.573”

1. 1 vencis
   February 1, 2009 at 11:37 am

   Not working for me, Mandriva 2008.1 i686

2. 2 bat86
   February 1, 2009 at 6:18 pm

   in uso su macchina con 2008.1 v. i686, tutto funziona bene!

3. 3 killer1987
   February 2, 2009 at 11:01 pm

   @ vencis

   can you describe your problem?

4. 4 klaus
   February 5, 2009 at 4:14 pm

   Why can’t you contribute to Mandriva instead of make separate repositories? Send your rpms to non-free/testing…

   That would be a great. Everybody could take advantage of your work!

5. 5 nicco
   February 6, 2009 at 12:08 pm

   to Klaus

   ummmmmmmmm………….

   MIB has born mainly as a Community, because NicCo, roberto_65, grissino, symbianflo, as all others members, were not satisfied about some Mandriva policies, about compiling packages with Youri without non human control, and so, instead of prepare some packages everyone for themselves, decided to try some of different:
   To make a new Mandriva support Community, in wich to speak about problems and wishes of mandriva users, considering every voice as vey usefull, trying to satisfate the most request as possible in our spare time.

   We often had many contrasts with some members of Italian (www.mandrakeitalia.org) Community:

   i.e’ we thought, form the start, that i586 packages are only obsolete things of the past, because i686 packages works in every machine we have tested, much better, and are some thousands, even in very old P3 with 256M i686 MIB packages works very well
   We don’t know any user with i586 needs, all use MIB i686 packages without no problem

   To avoid all that contrasts, coming from italian users without no serious competence about the argument at all, we decided to support i586 too, but now, we are seriously thinking to abandon that very obsolete arch to compile, we are starting some internal discussions about, so abandon i586 would leave us with more time to prepare more packages in number and quality

   Perhaps we’ill continue with i686 for 32bit and x86_64 for 64bit, and leave i586 packages for standard mandriva one…

   N.B: Most of us, were and are, paying members of Mandriva, before called Mandriva Silver Club Membership:
   There was a service of rpm requesting, but No one of our wished rpm have been accomplished… only waste of time was requesting something at Mandriva there, for our experience, and we payed 120€ at a year…
   So we were ofended by that thing, if you make something, you have to put someone, that can satisfate, non all the requests, but most of them, …

   So, we want to help Mandriva and Mandriva users, but with our small but serious policies!!!

   Facts, and not words…

   We are now watching this new Mandriva communications about new open to community and collaboration, but we are very suspicious:

   If someone in Mandriva official team need our direct help, someone in Mandriva can contact directly us (MIB), with some usefull propost!

6. 6 klaus
   February 7, 2009 at 1:49 am

   Thanks for the fglrx-drivers! They work perfectly for me

   “There was a service of rpm requesting, but No one of our wished rpm have been accomplished… only waste of time was requesting something at Mandriva there, for our experience, and we payed 120€ at a year…
   So we were ofended by that thing, if you make something, you have to put someone, that can satisfate, non all the requests, but most of them”

   Sure, I understand your patience isn’t unlimited. But the problem is, as always, someone have to do it. And in fact, you the MIB guys, you’we solved some of the problem. But who knows about you? Very few. There are a lot of people that could be helped by you. But either they don’t know about you, or it’s too complicated, if not too “dangerous” to add another repository.

   Offcourse if you package for Mandriva, you have to follow the Mandriva policies. But is that too much of a sacrifice? Why don’t we collaborate all together! It isn’t very productive if the Brazilian community make one effort, the Italien another, etc.

   Infact, on of ther reasons I like Mandriva is that the repositories aren’t too framented. In Ubuntu you have to add all kinds of reps. The same for OpenSuse, where the list just is too long. In Mandriva on the other hand, you usually just have to visit easyurpmi.zarb.org and add plf. That is a real asset for the distro.

   Anyways, keep up the good work
   Ciao.

7. 7 nicco
   February 7, 2009 at 10:46 am

   @ Klaus
   

   Answers:

   1>Adding MIB repos: The procedure is not too complicated and neither too dangerous:
   http://mib.pianetalinux.org/miblight/repository-2/

   2>Too dangerous?

   A>We test all the delicate packages (99%) internally, before to publish

   B>if some package is not tested we say that thing, but this can happen only in some packages not dangerous that can works or not alone, without having side effects, but dont’ make any disaster, and so you can remove easily

   N.B. In two years we have not make any disaster, never!
   From very first packages for 2007.0 to 2009.0, all are around 15.000 working RPMs…

   With some Mandriva official package, We had sometimes some problem, forom backports, and even from official updates:
   - Intel drivers, broken some of my friends installations
   - Evolution break package with some corruption of mail
   - and some few others…

   We are discussing internally about the possibility to help cooker, testing and backports too, with some of MIB packages, but we’ll have to decide together, about that thing…

   But whatever solutions we’ll take for the future,
   sure it’s the fact that we’ll mantain our Optimized rpm repos