Comment 35 for bug 314600

Mathais,

I do not mean in any way to disparage anyone's efforts in writing drivers for graphics cards. My comment was simply an attempt to summarize the situation with respect to getting a graphics card to work under X based on what I read in the bug reports. I upgraded from an ATI 9600 to an ATI 2400 HD and from a one Viewsonic monitor to a newer Viewsonic monitor. I finally got the vesa driver to work yesterday but still have no 3D acceleration.

I started with Linux (Slackware) around 1993. Getting X to work has always been a pain. In spite of much progress in auto detecting cards, monitors etc, I seem to always have a combination of hardware and software that requires hours of effort to make X work and it has recently been getting worse instead of better. I have an ASUS motherboard a Viewsonic monitor and ATI graphics cards, hardly no name manufacturers. Lately, none of the live Linux distributions I've tried work on any of my computers (two desktops, Acer and Compaq laptops and an Apple Macbook Pro running Parallels). In each case the issue is X.