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From: Osmany guirola Cruz (osmany.guirola_at_cigb.edu.cu)
Date: Sat May 20 2006 - 14:52:25 CDT

People, i solve the problem :) with my ati card.
Solution: i am using DRI with the radeon driver, with this driver i can
use the interlace mode like in "MS WINDOWS" :) ati linux-driver is a @@#
$@$#%#%%$%$. for the next i will use an NVIDIA :D
Now i am having problems with direct rendering (i am not have in this
moment :( ) but this is consecuence of other driver

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 11:45 -0500, John Stone wrote:
> Sabuj,
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:54:06PM -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > >This is probably the only way we'll ever get ATI to fix them.
> >
> > Have you ever spoken with/emailed an ATI engineer/technical person? Are
> > they really doing anything to fix a handful of really annoying problems
> > that make X nearly impossible to use with their drivers?
>
> About two years ago I used to have some good contacts at ATI, but they
> left the company and after that I lost touch with their engineering
> department. About 3 weeks ago I was contacted directly by an ATI engineering
> manager about getting these things fixed, and I sent them back a very
> long detailed email which included crash tracebacks and other information,
> so I'm hoping they are serious about improving their Linux drivers.
> The more people they hear from the more likely they are to pay attention
> is my philosophy. I'm currently reporting bugs to Apple as well, and
> even in their case, they want to know how many people the bug affects, etc.
>
> > The reason why I ask is that I've been doing exactly what you
> > recommended since fglrx v8.8.25 on internet forums (rage3d), an
> > unofficial bugzilla (ati.cchtml.com), as well as on their official
> > support. There's even an online petition to ATI to fix their drivers
> > which I signed (http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/petition.html , no
> > I didn't start it). Yet, all I receive are canned messages and buggy
> > driver updates from ATI support.
> >
> > >If you guys find different ways to crash the code, this should be
> > >sent to ATI so they'll finally fix it.
> >
> > Yeah no problem, you don't even need to start VMD. Just login to X, wait
> > a couple of seconds, logout of X, and your system is dead. No kernel
> > panic, just a black screen. This has been happening since v8.16.20 .
> >
> > Don't let me discourage anyone from sending bug reports to ATI, but I'm
> > done with ATI products for my x86 linux workstations and notebooks.
>
> I understand completely. I think people should buy from the vendors
> that give them the drivers and support they need to work without crashes,
> bugs, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>