[elrepo-devel] ATI driver

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/06/2010 10:16 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Fabian Arrotin
> <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote:
>   
>> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> As you probably know, we, ELRepo, have been offering the Nvidia
>>> driver. It has received quite a good volume of positive feedback. Now,
>>> we got a request to provide the ATI driver:
>>>
>>> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=96
>>>
>>> One major problem is that we do not have the ATI hardware. Is there
>>> anyone who is interested in developing the package to be distributed
>>> through ELRepo?
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi Akemi,
>> Do you mean some 'testers' or really someone who would need to write a
>> working kmod spec/kmodtool for ATI ?
>>     
>
> Ah, yes! Why didn't I think of you?  You are THE ATI guru :-D
>
> I don't mean just a tester. We want someone who actually writes AND
> tests the package. As you can imagine, without access to the hardware,
> it is extremely difficult to do any work.
>
> So, you can help?  We are in the middle of setting up to provide
> access for 'serious' contributors to our buildsystems to do the build
> work (hint, hint).
>   
I'll be happy to help with testing and even compiling / minor tweaking 
of existing packages, but since I've taken a second job I no longer have 
the time for
"heavy" development any more.

    Manuel