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

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

On 09/25/2012 03:08 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> [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.
A bit to my surprise, I must admit, I find the page now translated
to Français <http://wiki.debian.org/fr/ATIProprietary> - Italiano
<http://wiki.debian.org/it/ATIProprietary> - Melayu
<http://wiki.debian.org/ms/ATIProprietary> - ???????
<http://wiki.debian.org/ru/ATIProprietary> .  There seems to be some
demand for it. Is there _any_ page from where to get some more
current information? The segfaults had moved me back to the
free driver, and not wanting to risk things again, I would be a bit
of the wrong person for frequent updates.
> 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)
I happily added the above to the page. Feel free amending or moving it.

> If there is some "history" to be preserved, this can be done in a final
> "History" chapter.
Restructuring is appreciated.
> 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
A direct link of any such Wiki page to those preparing the packages is
barely beatable.

Steffen

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