Re: Drivers for Debian Unstable

[Matthew Tippett <mtippett at ati dot com>]

Christian Kirbach wrote:
> 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 guess we need a debian sponsor :).  Davide and Michel are 
* at debian dot org, so we might need to look at sponsored package.


> > 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?

Explicitely permitting distribution.

> Since sources are not available it cannot go into the Debian main
> repository, rather into contrib or non-free.

non-free is the expectation.

> 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.

There is a lot of work going on, a lot of it will take time to realize 
the benefit.

dual screen should work, but we do not expose a Xinerama extension 
interface.

Regards,

Matthew
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