transition from red hat 9 to fedora
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz at optonline.net
Thu Oct 30 01:08:23 UTC 2003
Kudos from me, My Sager laptop is doing 1220 frames per second with Rage
Mobility 9000.
Excellent work :-)
Ted
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:39, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ryan J. Zygar wrote:
>
> >If only they could build in the drivers at the sites of _my_ graphic card so
> >I did't have to rebuild the kernel everytime the release one.
> >
> >ATI Radeon 9600.
> >
> >But ah well
>
> Um, excuse me. I spent half a weekend a few weeks ago, of my own
> personal time backporting support for Radeon 9200/9600/9800 from
> XFree86 CVS along with patches donated by ATI, and a bunch of my
> own hacking efforts. I have posted numerous times to these
> mailing lists requesting people to TEST this new support out and
> to REPORT BUGS and issues with hardware that does not detect yet.
>
> To date, I've received only a couple of minor bug reports. I
> don't see any bug reports in bugzilla with your email address on
> them either.
>
> The current driver supports most ATI Radeon and FireGL hardware,
> with the exception of a few of the latest chips released. I
> don't get anywhere near half as much information and feedback
> from people having problems that I'd _like_ to get, and so I add
> support for new chips in a conservative manner which isn't likely
> to break the driver while adding new hardware support.
>
> Since there is not a massive assault of bug reports and RFEs in
> bugzilla about missing Radeon hardware support, I can't exactly
> classify this work as super high priority work to do with my Red
> Hat on my head. It is high priority for my personal spare time
> as a volunteer, but even that time is consumed by many things.
>
> Complain about missing support if you like, but it will remain
> "missing support" unless there are *POLITE* bug reports in
> bugzilla detailing the problem, and including X server log,
> config file, and other information.
>
> Support gets added as I have time, and as I receive feedback from
> people. Also, overly negative feedback or complaining isn't a
> huge motivator to drop what I'm doing and spend my
> Saturday/Sunday updating a video driver. I'd rather watch a DVD
> or go out for the weekend....
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