Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Card & Motherboard / Chipset directory.

[Daryll S. <da...@va...>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 sm...@we... wrote:
> 
> >Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:46:05 +0200
> >From: sm...@we...
> >To: dri...@li...
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> >List-Id: <dri-devel.lists.sourceforge.net>
> >Subject: Card  & Motherboard / Chipset directory.
> >
> >How about a directory / database of cards and the motherboards /
> >Chipsets that are known to work, preferably with some info on how
> >they were gotten to work eg distro & patches applied.
> >
> >IMHO the biggest problem people seem to have is incompatibilities
> >between chipset and graphics card, and if you can rule that out by
> >seeing that it (your set-up) has worked for someone else and how
> >they got it to work, you'd be more than half-way to a running
> >system.
> 
> Minus the motherboard - I think that is the general idea of the
> existing "Cards" file.

I understand why people want this, but it is not trivial to create and
more importantly keep current. We can't do it by ourselves, because we
don't have the time.

I think this sort of thing would be reasonable if done as a user
contributed process. Users would go to a web page and fill out a web
form and it would get entered. Then users could check a page to see
who has entered what. I'd probably have mainboard, graphics card config,
and OS as options. Works, has problems, fails as states. And finally a
section for comments.

In order to have that happen someone has to step forward and volunteer
to write the PHP/MySQL code and volunteer to support the webpage in the
future. I would hope there's little to do there, but I don't want
someone to write the code and then disappear.

						- |Daryll