From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 19 18:10:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CD837B419 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D68096AD74; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:40:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:40:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get the developer's attention Message-ID: <20010920104023.P90535@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3BA8F955.B6DA61B3@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA8F955.B6DA61B3@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:00:21PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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