RE: An ATI Mobility M4 driver for laptops soon ?

[Kmarshfield7]

I have a Dell Inspiron 8000(laptop) 1Ghz
128MB
ATI M4 graphics card



I am having a strange problem.

I believe that this problem is with XFree86 and it's consistency between it's releases for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux.

I want to know why some drivers for video cards are not included in all the distributations for all Unix-like operating systems named above ?

The XFree86 distributations for each Unix-like operating system contains different
drivers for different drivers.

For instance, I can configure XFree86 for Linux using the 4.2 series
it detects that I have an ATI Mobility M4 and proceeds to configure it.

Now when I try this with XFree86 4.2 on FreeBSD, it claims that it can't find the driver and fails to configure at all.

Who do I contact to have the ATI Mobility M4 driver included with all XFree86 distros
for NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux ?

-Thanks

Kevin Marshfield