On 7/24/07, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:32:42 -0700 Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The two gentlemen who seem to be the most vocally against > 'binary blob drivers' have no record that I can find in this list's > archives of ever providing anyone with actual fixes for drivers. Are you referring to me? If so, you either didn't look very hard or you were looking for the wrong thing.
If the shoe fits.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-March/msg00728.html
So you read an X log. This might horrify you, but you can do the same for *ALL* X drivers. Open source doesn't have some monopoly on a readable X log. In fact, the nvidia driver tends to produce one of the more readable, user friendly X logs. Surely you're not claiming that being able to read an X log, or generate a modeline is something that can only be done with open X drivers? Hopefully you're not that badly misinformed?
I have had several requests for the information that I put into that posts in the past couple of months, both on this list and in other places that I frequent as well. In fact, now that I think about it I believe I will pretty it up a bit and add it to my http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles webpage for others to use as needed, and has a handy place to point people to when this issue arises in the future. So if you were referring to me with the rather snarky statement that I quote here, you may now apologize and retract your remark.
You get points for having a sense of humor.
For the benefit of others, once I get that webpage updated with the instructions for making a wide-screen monitor work with the Intel video chipset, I will post the url here in a separate message.
That's nice. The nvidia X driver doesn't require that much effort to do the right thing, and even in the small percentage of cases when it does, the driver README already provides equivalent documentation.
