Re: Drivers for Debian Unstable

["Christian Kirbach" <Christian dot Kirbach at student dot uni-siegen dot de>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:24:11 -0500, Matthew Tippett <mtippett at ati dot com>  
wrote:

> The drivers seem to be working quite well for a large number of people.

> I was wondering what is needed for the packages to start appearing in  
> Debian Unstable.
An official Debian package maintainer I guess  :)
I.e. somebody dedicated to updating and maintaining a package,
fixing packaging bugs etc.
I think you should talk to Flavio, the package creator, if you are willing
to contribute to/continue his work.

> I believe that all of the licenses and build issues have been resolved,  
> and I would like to understand what more ATI could do to assist in  
> moving this into debian/unstable.
license issues?
Since sources are not available it cannot go into the Debian main
repository, rather into contrib or non-free.

Besides I am surprised in a positive way that people at ATI are concerned
about their Linux drivers. I had the impression that hardly anybody has  
been
maintaining them for the last 2 years. I have not seen any (significant)
performance improvements, Xinerama (dual-screen) still does not work for
me nor for a friend etc etc.


Take care
 Christian
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