On Friday 22 September 2006 06:45, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Candidly it's not the least bit important to me at all if they want
> to help or not. If I run into a problem, and it's clearly a kernel
> problem, then I report it. I understand that there have been many
> issues with the ati-drivers in the past. that's always the way it is
> with the ATI stuff. I hate it, but I cannot change it.
>
> I don't and won't be running this kernel any time soon. Ingo put it
> out there and *he* asked people to test it. He doesn't get to pick how
> we test it and in fact he doesn't place any restrictions on how we
> test it. If he doesn't want to work on a bug that's reported then
> that's completely his business. Not a problem for me. He picks what he
> works on. I pick what I report.
>
> I'm not gonna run 2.6.18-rtX for months I'm sure.
>
> None the less, you asked for a report here so hopefully I've given
> you what you wanted.
Well, if you use a closed source driver, there's no way for Ingo to fix it.
Period. That's why noone will look at it. The place to report kernel troubles
to, when using closed source drivers, is the provider of these kernel
drivers. In this case ATI.
Regards,
Flo
-- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.orgReceived on Fri Sep 22 16:15:02 2006
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