On 8/12/05, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, please include the vesa driver asap into the official ISO. Many > > interested people won't drop their attempts to get in touch with rio > > after booting into text mode and nothing works... > > It will be done as soon as possible, but not for a few months. > In the fall I am going to slowly merge in the changes in > /n/sources/contrib/rsc, one by one, with sufficient testing > periods inbetween to isolate problems. Things beside vesa > are different in that code, and some of those things break > existing card support.
Thx > > Btw. including the radeon driver, which seems to be not available at > > the moment, could also be very helpful. > > Jmk has a Radeon card (either a 9200 or 9600) with DVI > output. If someone sends him a Radeon driver that works > on that card, then it will go into the distribution. Until then, > it won't. That's been the story for probably a year now > but no one has done it. Are you volunteering? I'd like to, but I'm not experienced in graphics adaptor drivers yet - and I only own a Radeon 7500 card, which is known to work with the driver which already existed somewhere. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
