whose savage driver is it anyway ?

[Nilmoni Deb <ndeb@ece.cmu.edu>]

All,
	I read about the daily snapshots of binary modules (a good and
long outstanding feature) in
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-April/001302.html and
downloaded the file "savage_drv.o" from
http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ . 

Then I ran "strings savage_drv.o | grep 1.1" and got this output:

driver (version 1.1.26t) for S3 Savage chipsets
1.1.26t

It so happens that in http://www.xfree86.org/support.html , there is a
link to the "S3 Savage Driver" page 
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html
where it clearly says that "1.1.26t" is the version of the driver that Tim
Roberts released on Dec 4, 2002 (the latest release on his page is
1.1.27t). Its customery for his releases to have the extra "t" at the end
to distinguish his release from the official XFree86 release.

So, if the savage driver binary in
http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ is not the official cvs
version, it should not have the "t" at the end. And if it is Tim robert's
unofficial driver, why is the version still the older 1.1.26t, when the
newer 1.1.27t is already available ?

thanks
- Nil





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