more lockup laptop problems with dapper

[Brian McKee]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 04:57, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> > radeon locks up after a couple of hours.  vesa reduces resolution of the
> > screen.  Doesn't seem to be able to display the full 1400 x 1040.
> > You now, one would think that for something so important as the video
> > driver, there would be a fund-raising effort to pay the developers to do
> > the damn job right.  Volunteer work is fine for noncritical stuff like
> > open office or gimp.  but something like device drivers, we really need
> > some mechanism to pay people to do the job right and then hold them
> > accountable to those who paid.

Right - important stuff like the kernel maybe?
And accountable quality like Microsoft?
Me thinks you need to review the free software principles a bit...

Brian
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