On 9/8/06 8:57 AM, "Robert Osfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Should we work around every driver bug? PBOs don't work on my MacBookPro > under Windows, the app crashes. Not to mention the other driver bug > regarding TEXTURE_RECTANGLE. Why are ATI drivers so crappy? > > I hate to say it but perhaps the ATI drivers are crappy because they marketing > department don't feel our pain. They only way seems to publish condemnation > of the drivers as Chris Hanson did a while back. ATI might work that way, but for OS X, filing bugs at radar.apple.com is the BEST way to get Apple to listen. Especially if the bug is marked as a data loss, which this one is. It is even more likely to get fixed if there is a reproducable test case attached to the bug and clear/concise directions on how to reproduce it. From their, Apple will determine that the bug is a driver issue and then flow it down to ATI or Nvidea to get fixed. After those guys "fix" the problem the bug then gets added to Apple's QA regression testing (hopefully). Then eventually the driver is released as a patch or in one of the OS patches. This was the story that was reiterated to Developers at WWDC this year. Essentially the groups within Apple live and die by the radar bug reports. So basically if all of us that have MacBook Pros would file this bug (with all the same information) then the bug would be filtered to the top of the priority list. There are already seeds of 10.4.8 to some developers. Now that we have a reproducible test case we need to find some one who has access to one of the seeds and see if the bug is truly fixed. Anyone know anybody? -- Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer Innovative Management & Technology Services _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
