On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:18:48 +0200, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear Listmembers, > dear Joshua, > ok, this is something very reasonable. Two further inputs on this. > 1.) is there any email-address at sun one could write to and ask for a > freeing > of this piece of firmware? I do not really think sun is making big money from > it. And basically everybody can download it from the internet (so did I).
I don't know, Ben, do you? > 2.) given this, why does the sarge X11 crashes if the binary for sunffb from > sarge is used without the firmware being downloaded, however, both the old > SuSE and the old binaries from debian woody run terribly slow but stable? > This can easily be tested for. Fixing this would leave people with a running > though slow X11. It's because acceleration is disabled. You can probably do the same in XF86Config-4, but I don't know the syntax (I don't own a machine with this card.) > Should I put another bug on the bug-list? Possibly (against xserver-xfree86.) It stands to reason that X should revert to non-accelerated mode when afbinit hasn't been run, instead of crashing. But that's up to Branden. -- Joshua Kwan
