On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:58:19 +1100 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: Linux on Tecra 9000 > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:12:48PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Basically, the drivers on the S3 site as far as I'm concerned are >> of zero importance to anyone, other than the fact someone can say >> "we support Linux, download our driver from http://foo".; I trust >> Tim's own code to the point that if S3 released an actual driver >> that had in-house written bug fixes, I would pass it by Tim first >> to ensure the code is sane. Tim's 1.1.20t driver in particular >> fixed a _lot_ of bugs that were long standing. After updating to >> this driver I received a lot of thanks back from happy Savage >> users both outside and inside Red Hat. > >The S3 drivers worked with my RH7.1 CD without the need to >perform any upgrades so they do have some use. I would think >that not ALL users are necessarily going to be keen to upgrade >all the time.
Well thats fine of course. If a user is using the supplied drivers and they work acceptably well for them then of course there is no reason to upgrade. If the supplied drivers do not work good enough, then the updated ones most probably do. If a user doesn't want to upgrade to get it to work, then I'm not sure what they expect. You cant both use a non working driver, and have it work. ;o) >If Tim's drivers had worked with my machine as installed then I >would have used them for the reasons you mentioned. >But just to summarise. My understanding is that I can either >upgrade my standard 7.1 installation with the XFree86-4.1..rpms >OR I can install RH7.2 but that both include Tim's latest driver >(ie. 1.1.20t) ? THe XFree86 4.1.0-15 that was released as erratum for RHL 7.1 and 7.2 is identical, in fact they are the exact same binaries. So if you use 4.1.0-15 in RHL 7.1 or 7.2 you're using the same thing. If you upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 you get 4.1.0-3. Either way you still need to upgrade to our latest release for the latest code. I'm not sure when the updated Savage driver went in, but it is definitely in 4.1.0-15. So far I dont recall getting any Savage bug reports in email or in bugzilla since 4.1.0-15 was released, so I presume that all major problems are resolved now, and you should be fine. If there are still problems, I urge people to report them to Tim, and in our bugzilla as well. Hope this helps. Good luck! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
