X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

[Benjamin Scott]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> Well, ATI/AMD & Intel have both FOSS'd their drivers so that
> the community can decide to pick them up and maintain them,
> if need be, for as long as there's interest--possibly forever.

  In practice, the FOSS world isn't usually much better at maintaining
support for older hardware.  Unsurprisingly, old software that almost
nobody uses doesn't have many hackers interested in maintaining it,
either.

-- Ben