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On Friday 13 July 2001 23:07, you wrote: |
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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 |
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> > stuff like my laptop. However there are third party projects that come up |
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> > with superior drivers and for some reason release them outside the tree. |
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> > In particual the gatos ati drivers and the savage drivers are what I'm |
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> > interested 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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> > |
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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 |
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> > lives 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 |
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> xfree ebuild? |
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> Best Regards, |
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BTW: we might finally incorporate the nvidia drivers as well. |
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Dan Armak |
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