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Hello,<br>
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On 09/25/2012 03:08 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
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<pre wrap="">[forwarding to pkg-fglrx-devel@ with Steffen's permission, he is subscribed]
On 2012-09-25 12:04, Steffen Möller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Patrick, hi Andreas,
<tons of praise for your FGLRX packages go here>
There is some sensation of a communication gap, though. While once
googling about it all, I found a few lines in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary">http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary</a>
which I am now for a good part to blame for having extended that
description. Following the rather unfortunate naming scheme of that
page, I then created
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/ATIStream">http://wiki.debian.org/ATIStream</a>
because of my main desire to get my graphics cardS (yes, I have two)
running with BOINC.
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<pre wrap="">I've never looked into them. Just read them and find them not up to
date.</pre>
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A bit to my surprise, I must admit, I find the page now translated<br>
to <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/fr/ATIProprietary">Français</a>
- <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/it/ATIProprietary">Italiano</a> -
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ms/ATIProprietary">Melayu</a> - <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/ru/ATIProprietary">Русский</a> .
There seems to be some<br>
demand for it. Is there _any_ page from where to get some more<br>
current information? The segfaults had moved me back to the <br>
free driver, and not wanting to risk things again, I would be a bit<br>
of the wrong person for frequent updates.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Probably the same as for Nvidia.
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<pre wrap="">You are unlikely to have more time at your disposal than myself. But
maybe you find someone to those Wiki pages and either update it directly
or complain to me. Do those pages come up for you, too, when you google
for debian ATI graphics card ? I may have biased google too much over it :o)
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I'm not the wiki person, so I won't start maintaining these or other
pages. And I never googled for them. But I'm probably not a good example
user they are targeting either ...</pre>
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:)<br>
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<pre wrap="">There should probably be some kind of compatibility matrix at the top of
the page, including instructions for finding out the model that one has
and how to map it to some family name ...
Family; marketed names | codename | squeeze | wheezy | sid
Radeon ancient | | free radeon driver only
Radeon XD 1xxxxx; .... | RVxyz | no | yes | yes
FireGL 9999 | RVabc | no | backports | no (Xorg:
wheezy, driver: wheezy-backports)
Radeon HD 2xxx | | yes | backports | yes (driver:
experimental)</pre>
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I happily added the above to the page. Feel free amending or moving
it.<br>
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<pre wrap="">If there is some "history" to be preserved, this can be done in a final
"History" chapter.
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Restructuring is appreciated.<br>
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<pre wrap="">PS: the NVIDIA equivalent is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers">http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers</a> which is a good example for
a bad wiki page, there is way too much irrelevant information for a
novice user</pre>
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A direct link of any such Wiki page to those preparing the packages
is barely beatable.<br>
<br>
Steffen<br>
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