Gareth Hughes wrote:
>
> Frank Earl wrote:
> >
> > How about all those people without the luxury of upgrading- say laptops
> > and things like iMacs? Go buy a whole new computer- not an option, when
> > you think about it. This is not to say you have to be doing it- but
> > someone ought to be doing something about it. I'm not into forced
> > upgrades just because some hardware vendor decided that something's too
> > old or a software vendor did the same- I suspect a lot of us aren't
> > either, Gareth.
>
> That's fine -- I wasn't suggesting that. But, for the people who can
> actually do this job, the r128/G400 isn't terribly interesting anymore.
> Isn't the whole open source thing about developers scratching an itch?
Probably, but I sure don't think it's about them saying "I don't care about
problems with my code" ;)
> Talk with Keith and Brian, I'm sure they'd agree with me. We are graphics
> programmers for a reason, and keeping up to date with the latest research
> and rendering techniques is important as a result. I'd rather be making a
> difference to the state-of-the-art than tweaking a driver I wrote 18 months
> ago. But that's just me...
Fair enough, I just wish you'd be a bit more supportive to those of us who are
trying (with very limited resources, mind you) to fix it, as you're probably
the man with the single most intimate knowledge of the driver. You don't have
to do it yourself, just help us do it. :)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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