http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=325
did you check this page ?? cheers Szemir On July 18, 2004 00:02, Andrew Graupe wrote: > Let me start by saying: I like linux. I think the world would be better > if everyone used it, and at least a bit more spyware free. That being > said, I have just spent most of the day trying to get 3D acceleration > with my integrated S3 UniChrome chip. I will say this in favor of > nVIDIA and ATi, at least they're common enough that people have come up > with workarounds for the various linux bugs. I write this near > midnight, after a marathon session of patching, kernel recompiles, and > other unpleasantness. That being said, I will still have to reboot > often if I want optimum performance because gentoo-dev-sources (which is > fast for normal things) can't be patched to work with VIA video chips. > I think I'll stay with this for now. At least if the Neverwinter Nights > install (the entire reason I'm doing this) goes without a hitch, it will > mean a great advancement in terms of linux games. I guess we don't hear > about linux games that much because it's so phenomenally hard to get to > this point. > > I don't mean to flame or troll, but this is the truth. Linux could be a > *TEENSY* bit more userfriendly. If the patches for VIA support are out > there, why haven't they been merged into the main kernel tree? I have > to think that VIA is a fairly big value-mobo manufacturer (the PC in > question is an HP; imagine how many are out there), so it's not a fringe > brand. At least it's done now. > > Regards, > > Andrew Graupe > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
