On 10/10/07, Paul Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But isn't introducing bad or good lists the same as using the the Windows > version? I though the general idea is to have tests that act on behavior?
I don't think so, a buggy driver is outside of the scope of something we can fix or care to workaround in Wine. We already do some detection of certain devices via PCI id's somewhere in the Wine DirectX code for certain features and I think this should be extended somehow to the drivers and present a warning to the user or some such. The more I think about it, blacklisting really seems to be the only way given the timing of the driver releases. This issue goes beyond just the testing framework. Let say user has a buggy ATI or Nvidia driver installed and it works for OpenGL demos and the like under Linux but when the user runs Wine it hangs the system because we are stressing the driver in ways beyond the normal eye-candy the WM pushes. The user is going to think its a problem in Wine and not in the driver. I see this day in and day out at CodeWeavers and every single time the users blame us even when its fairly obvious that the hang or crash only affects 3D applications. -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
