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. 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) ? According to Nino sound appears to work OK on the Tecra under RH7.2 so it looks like I need to go down to the local shop and check out the price of RH7.2 :-) Thanks for the responses, Wilson Fletcher _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
