On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:I have opened a bug for it, but it got closed > immediately because I have > >> no evidence to support it. lol :P >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247860 >> > > AFAIR Jer is only a wrangler (ok, "only" is not the right word, but you > know what I mean) so he's likely not going to get into too much detail about > the specifics of the bug wrt fglrx, ati, etc. You'd have better luck > talking to a dev who deals with fglrx or the kernel, and convincing them to > look at it. > > I know it can be frustrating to have bugs marked as INVALID, but saying > "your justification for marking this as INVALID is actually the invalid > thing here ... not my bug report" is probably going to get you ignored! > > I'm not disagreeing with you here, but I do think you will have a hard time > getting hard evidence it's specifically the fglrx driver, and not some > effect the fglrx driver is having on your hw... > I agree. Even if this is a bug, no open source developer could be qualified to fix it because fgrlx is closed source. If you can, report this to ATI, otherwise, you will have to live with the problem or use open source drivers.
