Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:40:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get the developer's attention Message-ID: <20010920104023.P90535@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3BA8F955.B6DA61B3@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:00:21PM -0700 References: <3BA8F955.B6DA61B3@acuson.com>
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On Wednesday, 19 September 2001 at 13:00:21 -0700, David Johnson wrote: > I have been unable to use FreeBSD for the past two months. This is > because my new computer has a A7A266 motherboard. There is one bug > logged against this board, dated 6/25. I gave up hope with FreeBSD-4.3. > But now 4.4 has been released. > > So I went and looked everywhere for information on the status of this > popular board. NOTHING! The bug has never been modified. All messages to > any list (including my own) inquiring as to the this mobo's support have > met with stone silence or irrelevant answers (like running xf86cfg > again). > > So, how does one determine if a bug has been fixed other than spending > several hours downloading each release as it is announced, trying it > out, finding it doesn't work, and calling DaemonNews to cancel the next > subscription ship? Short question: how do I get a developer's attention > so I can get someone to work on this problem? Well, first you use the appropriate mailing list, FreeBSD-questions. If that doesn't happen, you enter a bug report. You say that there is a "bug logged". Is this a bug report? If so, what's its status? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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