From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 06:06:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDBA116A400 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B0613C4B8 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so479899ugh for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:06:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MQ3eX8uUB/tRiPLzpB0gFoHJd8novdoTUViOYQzIeiGvhZZA8OtsTt5Oh/PsBeArzjKksaiSmpNaFKUHQXEkVRasqjag9rhlf7u0aZrCvjYr8I+4AFk0CNz5g+AsJmAdCYeXXbcsw2FqSpZwZAKLggcbFfW/kT9PMu17sxIUeZo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BjJW4dV1ruTBUlr+KQljA/ylg0t4s1mfVRGbmXMEeTkR3P9N6P8B8ZeknsugbNaWjXqNVYuJQSiza4i0oUDk0OsCbzMpUBO9oEpD73VPX4Y5mFFiBctP3sMp6c9JUnaQ1MGsJsjFRmlkLggMoBpuo8P9RFXidOBH+edlmD8IN3w= Received: by 10.114.171.1 with SMTP id t1mr2739578wae.1173850642016; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.148.18 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0703132237u1eb8ec62te6b7c8559f4cb935@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:37:21 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:06:07 -0000 On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton wrote: > We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer > documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD > or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. > > Here's the email address of AMD's president: dirk.meyer@amd.com > > Give him your two cents. > > > > On 3/12/07, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:10, Yann Golanski wrote: > > > I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD > > > working with it. My system is a clean install of FreBSD. I've managed to > > > get VESA to "work" but cannot get much more than that. > > > > There is no open source support for this card (alas). It's VESA or fglrx. > > Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this. We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages, which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way, as long as more users aware of this, this will force AMD/ATI to look into the issue deeper, and work it out. This would be better than emailing the AMD CEO IMHO. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/