[Pkg-fglrx-devel] FGLRX on Debian Wiki pages

[Andreas Beckmann]

[forwarding to pkg-fglrx-devel@ with Steffen's permission, he is subscribed]

On 2012-09-25 12:04, Steffen Möller wrote:
> 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
>     http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
> 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
>    http://wiki.debian.org/ATIStream
> because of my main desire to get my graphics cardS (yes, I have two)
> running with BOINC.

I've never looked into them. Just read them and find them not up to
date. Probably the same as for Nvidia.

> 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)

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 ...

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)

If there is some "history" to be preserved, this can be done in a final
"History" chapter.

Andreas

PS: the NVIDIA equivalent is
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers which is a good example for
a bad wiki page, there is way too much irrelevant information for a
novice user