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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:44:55PM -0700, Taras Glek wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> X has several drivers that are not perfect and some just dont work on stuff |
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> like my laptop. However there are third party projects that come up with |
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> superior drivers and for some reason release them outside the tree. In |
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> particual the gatos ati drivers and the savage drivers are what I'm interested |
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> in. |
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> Could you added an option to the X ebuild, something like USE="gatos" or |
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> USA=savage so it downloads and compiles with alternate drivers. |
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> http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html <--savage driver |
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> http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ <-- i belive the updated ati driver lives |
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> there...the url isnt working for me at the moment |
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This is a good idea; any takers who want to work on a new version of the xfree |
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ebuild? |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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