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.... -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
