On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 22:29, Joe Krahn wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > > > I was wondering who the maintainer for the radeon driver under X is. I > > am trying to get my Radeon VE to work and it is really difficult because > > from what I have heard the ATI driver is crap. If that isnt true please > > forgive me, but I would really like to talk to who ever is maintaining > > this driver. Anyone want to help me. Thankyou > > > You probably won't find out much with a post like that. It sound like you > just want to complain about the driver. It is better to post your > problem and see if someone can help. With a newer driver like Radeon, > you may be better off to download and compile the CVS version. > > I think all of the XFree86 drivers have some degree of crap in them > compared to things like the FreeBSD or Linux kernels. A lot has > changed recently in graphics hardware, and new features like > DRI and Xvideo extension have been added. The drivers are very > complex, require a lot of work, and there's very little funding. > Things are stabilizing, but you should be patient.
Im sorry if I came off like that. My card does work with the ati driver, but what I am trying to do is get the dual head to work on my card. I have looked all over the place and have yet to find any way to get the second head on my card running to display DVD playback. Truthfully I am sorry that I came across as if I didnt like XF86. I really am happy with it. The only thing I would like is to get the full functionality out of my card. The reason why I said the ati driver was crap is that was what I was told by several people to date. I would like to talk to the maintainer of the ati driver so maybe I could give him some help getting it working on newer radeons maybe. My intentions are purely to help improve something that I see as not up to what it should be. Again I apologize for the terseness of my previous response. Thank you for any help. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
