Re: Bug#246627: Radeon card firmware problem
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:53:41AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > It should be able to fix the problem but i cannot test it myself since I
> > lack that kind of hardware.
>
> I can test any of these patches,
Please do so!
> but I doubt stuff like 3D will work if this microcode is actually
> needed! This would be really, really, really bad if we can do neither 3D
> nor acceleration.
Yes these was mentioned on debian-x. Sorry i don't have the message
reference handy.
> Next time we need a more thorough analysis, not just 'I don't think this
> file gets used much anywhere'. That includes testing on the relevant
> hardware: I have a Radeon 9000 which can be used for testing Radeon
> stuff, but I just assumed it had been tested when it was asserted that
> it was thoroughly unnecessary.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200404/msg00955.html
I did call for testers after we changed/removed the code from X but there
have no replies to it. I assumed that noone had problems with it.
Fabio
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