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These cards are not "crippled". They can do everything they were designed to do, and still can. Crippled is when you can't use all features (any longer) because the drivers would not let you. Like if...

With mesa 8.0 in Ubuntu 12.04 there is no more OpenGL support out of the box for cards missing DRI2 drivers. However, as was commented when the DRI1 support was killed off in mesa development, the...

Let me guess: The "older Intel Pentium M notebook" has a Radeon card, probably in the X??? series... 10.04 came with KMS by default, and radeon KMS at the time had no power management, and was in...

Right, this is from my side not about protecting software and hardware vendors. Yes, keeping old hardware working *is* hurting the computer industry. I am thinking about the users. Not the...

Michael wrote in the article: "a few tiny tweaks. This is sadly the most work these ancient and largely unsupported drivers have received in a while"

This is not so sad, really, but a matter of...

Also grub 1/legacy can do that. I have old laptops which have no BIOS options to boot from USB, and I have been using legacy grub for years to boot USB sticks. Or are you talking about something...

If you have one tar.gz that works with these different flavors, it is not difficult to make a .deb that also works with all of them.

If there is an installer script which installs alternative...

What is a good or bad release seems to be individual and depends strongly on your hardware I guess. My experience with 10.10 so far is really good. Seems like they did not push too much changes so it...

This was a kernel fix, so it is not targeted by the xorg-edgers PPA. There is a kernel in the PPA, but its purpose is to provide headers for building the other packages.

The daily builds in the...

evergreen-accel was merged to master like 9 days ago, so yes. You might want some beyond-edge kernel stuff which is not yet in the main tree or drm-next kernels offered by the Kernel Mainline PPA...

If X1950 does not work out of the box on 10.10, please file a bug report using "ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-ati".

Seriously, if the default classic drivers do not work at all there is a problem,...

OTOH, xorg-edgers for Maverick should have everything needed for Evergreen support by now. Just add a kernel from the Kernel Mainline PPA.

I meant the information for users that the TV-out support does not cover these R200 cards, not information for developers... The man page only says TV-out is supported on R/RV/RS200 cards, that's why...

The video shows the nouveau gallium driver for nVidia cards...

At the current state, there is no performance improvement by using the gallium drivers. Also, if you don't have working 3D hardware acceleration with the classic drivers, you should fix that before...

You can still file a bug on the missing documentation :) Or better, add what Alex said to the wiki and man page.

You can report bugs directly on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.

The default maverick kernel is much newer :) You may also want to try the 2.6.36-RC kernel in the xorg-edgers maverick PPA.

From the PTS report it looks as if you are booting an old kernel. For the rest it is hard to diagnose without seeing your log files. Try also with other applications than lightmarks.

You still want to debate this? :)

If you are referring to my post, I was definitely not "complaining". I explained why distributions are happy to keep the UMS fallback that classic provides. I am...