Radeon Driver help

[don fisher]

MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I am currently running version Ubuntu 9.10 with all updates applied. When I
>> try to generate 3D graphics under Mathematica, I receive the following error
>> message:
>>
>> radeon_lock.c:65: radeonGetLock: Assertion `drawable != ((void *)0)' failed.
>>
>> Google found the same message under FreeDesktop Bugzilla – Bug 22851 at:
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=22851
>>
>> The status is "Resolved Fixed", with a modification date of 2009-11-25.
>>
>> Since I am still receiving this error, is there any advice as to how to
>> incorporate the fix, or reason why it is not incorporated?
>>
> Make sure you have the right driver with the fix incorporated - check
> with ATI maybe?
> 

I have been away from kernel development for awhile, but aren't the 
drivers still part of the kernel distribution? It has been over a year 
since the fix was posted. I was curious to know what was correct 
list/path to suggest that the fix be incorporated into the Ubuntu 
distribution. It there is a reason why it was not incorporated, I wanted 
to know what it was.

Thnaks