On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 09:29 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Note > however that there is *no* debate that there are Open Source zealots > all over these lists who revel in telling people they are simply > *wrong* for using closed source drivers no matter what the reason. > Again, there is no way for me to know where anyone comes down on that > subject unless they make their person views known. Understood. I for one am coming from a 100% technical POV and dislike zealotry and people who make free software a political/religious issue. The point is not whether the ATI driver is likely to work, or whether you should be using it - it's only that for the specific purpose of kernel debugging, closed source drivers cannot be present for purely technical reasons. Lee
