On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:28:25 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
The "powers-that-be" obviously pushed the decision.
Huh, I don't see anything in the bug that suggests that. But you're absolutely right, it's totally disappointing that Novell would expect ATI to take care of the closed-source driver that they (ATI) developed. *Totally* unreasonable. What the heck were Novell smoking when they decided that was an appropriate course of action? It's utterly irresponsible to expect the vendor who creates a driver to actually maintain it or actually, you know, TRACK DEFECTS AND GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT IT. OK, so enough of my sarcasm; you get the point. In all seriousness, I once upon a time reported a bug to ATI about the Linux driver, and they very helpfully told me that I needed to take the issue to *IBM* because it is an embedded video card in a Thinkpad. So, even though ATI writes the driver, they won't support it or even try to figure out what's wrong with it. Personally, I blame ATI for their crappy drivers, not Novell. Let ATI fix the problems and track them - maybe if we all beat on them for a while, they'll get a clue. Don't *redirect* our bug reports to other vendors who did not write the damned driver, just accept the bug as feedback and incorporate any fixes into the next rev. ATI needs to stop leaning on everyone else track THEIR bugs and take some frakkin' responsibility. If I could get rid of this ATI video card, I would. But it's a company- owned laptop, so I have to deal with what I've got. But you can bet my home systems don't have any ATI garbage in them. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org