On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 02:31, Andy Green wrote:
> Consider for a moment that you are Mike Harris and this complaint lands
> on your monitor. Say you want to help. What exactly is your next move?
> Look at the ATI source to see what has gone wrong? There isn't any,
> ATI refuse to give it out.
Did it work in a previous fedora release? Does it work with
other distributions? In other words, did you change the
interface in a way responsible for the breakage?
> Should you, as valuable resource, then bust
> out a debugger and spend miserable weeks trawling through disassemblies
> to try to understand the origin of the problem, likely caused by an ATI
> programmer that is sitting on the source that could help you solve it in
> hours rather than weeks? What exactly can you do to help other than
> shrug your shoulders and tell you to complain at the guys sitting on the
> sources?
Provide a documented and unchanging interface so if something works
today it will still work next week.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
