They get the jump on the open-source community because the *manufacturors* make drivers that work because if they did not, they could not sell any hardware.
If they don't work under Windows, then customers just return them and say they are broken. If they don't work under X, then people write to the X folks and complain. Simple. If the video card doesn't work under X, then return it and get one that does. On Sunday 17 November 2002 04:07 pm, J. Sims wrote: | I would have to agree with you. I actually looked into the code and | (at least for the radeon driver) there are comments to the effect of | "FP/LCD display testing might not work well" clearly it doesnt. When | I tried to fake out the monitor test code by forcing the "return" | value to one I then got a sig 11 (segfault?) so Ive left it at that | so far and have gone back to windoze. (monitor works fine there of | course) wonder how they always manage to get the jump on the open | sores "community". Any ideas? | | | | Crestfallen -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
