2009/5/6 Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com:
Mesa (that includes e.g. the intel and radeon drivers) is generally responsive to bug reports, as is NVIDIA. It's really just AMD and Apple that are problematic wrt. getting bugs fixed.
Just for the record, I'm not trying to just make AMD look bad here, I think it's great that they released the GPU documentation, and that they're paying people to work on the Mesa driver. Also, going by what I hear from other people, fglrx improved a lot in the more recent versions (certainly compared to the kind of support my Radeon 9800 Pro had...), so it's not all bad. They just *really* need to fix their developer relations stuff.