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....
