On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:39:00AM +0200, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > The 'binary piece of junk' I referred to was the proprietary, binary > blob from AMD known as AMD Catalyst (drivers for Radeon graphics > cards), as is evident from the subject line. They are known to be > buggy, and besides that all proprietary, non-free, closed-source, > binary-blob software qualify as junk - by definition. >
Why would you want to run such junk ? For most of us, xf86-video-ati is ok - for bleeding edge hardware you might want to use the master branch from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/ (you can get .tar.gz there, instead of doing a git pull) [...] > > P.S. Anybody who replies directly to my private mail address will have > their mail address added to my kill-filter. Only reply to list. > Please. In that case, please fix YOUR mail client to not request a personal reply. Your mail headers, as received here: User-Agent: GNUMail (Version 1.2.0) Subject: Re: [lfs-support] AMD Catalyst drivers and LFS-7.1ish X-BeenThere: lfs-supp...@linuxfromscratch.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: krist...@herkild.dk, LFS Support List <lfs-supp...@linuxfromscratch.org> When people send such headers, those of us here who reply are usually polite enough to include the personal copy. The attitude in your reply was not welcome, I'm sorely tempted to reinstate the copy of this reply to your private mail address. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
