[ltp] Has anybody witten mails to ati for their bad drivers ?

[Alejandro Bonilla]

> |
> |> Nils wrote:
> |>
> |>> Hello there,
> |>> has anybody written mails to ati for their bad drivers ? (e.g. FireGL
> |>> T2)
> |>
> |>
> | They know they SUCK.
> |
> |>> Who needs a notebook driver without resume support ? This problem is
> |>> now over an year old !!!
> |>> I think this is my last computer with an ati card....
> |>> Nils

This means that this is your last IBM Thinkpad? :)

> |>
> |>
> |> .
> |> Unfortunately not too many Thinkpads around WITHOUT ATI cards :-(
> |
> |
> | ??????????? Almost all the IBM's use ATI Cards.
> |
> |> Not only suspend is not supported but when I last tried with 8.08.25
> |> TV-out was working only in terms of showing something on TV but not in
> |> terms of showing something readable.
> |
> |
> | I hate the ATI drivers, SO I rather not use 3D. Anyway, why don't you
> | create a script to remove the ati module ; suspend ; and when back then
> | load the module again.?? I have no idea if you can do this? I do it 
> with
> | other stuff that prevent me from suspending.
>
> well, what use would suspend have if i had to kill my x-server first?
> if i kill my x i could also halt the system, it wouldn't take much more
> time to boot it totally, than to resume from disk

Don't use the ATI Driver. I can suspend using just the kernel driver and 
xfree86 support.

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> |
> |>
> |> .
> |> But well, we have X.org supported now, let's hope that ATI will keep
> |> improving!
> |> .
> |> BRGDS,
> |> Tasmanian D
> |
> |
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