Re: Possible Petition - RE: [XFree86] Can't start X with I830M chipset, 8MB preallocated video RAM

2003-12-19 Thread Davide Dozza
I'll sign whatever petition you like, but I won't delude myself into thinking it'll make a difference. Linux users aren't a big enough marketyet! I don't think so. In Europe people using open source coped with stopping the patent directive. +1 for the petition. Davide

Re: Possible Petition - RE: [XFree86] Can't start X with I830M chipset, 8MB preallocated video RAM

2003-12-19 Thread Davide Dozza
I don't know if anyone know this link: http://www.petitiononline.com/xanthan/petition.html Is a try to make OSS people visible about the Centrino problem. Maybe we can arrange something like this. Davide ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Possible Petition - RE: [XFree86] Can't start X with I830M chipset, 8MB preallocated video RAM

2003-12-18 Thread Stephen King
Why don't we start harassing Dell and Gateway since this is a known problem with the BIOS. If we start with a standard petition email that clearly states what is wrong and what needs to be done to fix it that might work. A little bad press by sending this petition to other groups and areas letting

Re: Possible Petition - RE: [XFree86] Can't start X with I830M chipset, 8MB preallocated video RAM

2003-12-18 Thread Christopher Thom
Quoth Stephen King: Why don't we start harassing Dell and Gateway since this is a known problem with the BIOS. If we start with a standard petition email that clearly states what is wrong and what needs to be done to fix it that might work. A little bad press by sending this petition to other