On Thursday 02 August 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if the driver blows dead goats and the vendor isnt willing to help > > and no Gentoo dev wants to touch it, what other solution is there ? > > There's an open-source driver for the r5xx stuff called the avivo > driver [1]. It's still pretty rough, so I haven't packaged it yet. For > anyone interested, it should be pretty easy to make an ebuild for it > based on the xf86-video-ati ebuild and the git eclass. > > For the present, je_fro's picked up ati-drivers and anarchy's been > sending changes for some of the newest stuff.
sounds good to me ... so to tie back to the source of the thread, crappy closed source vendor drivers are not a valid reason to hold up stabilization of a kernel if the issue affects you: (1) complain to the vendor (2) help make the package work with the new kernel (3) dont buy the hardware (4) stop bugging the kernel developers (5) give me a hug (6) goto 5 -mike
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