Re: [expert]

[Mika . Laitio]

I have another non Linux related example from Diamond...

Many years ago I bought Diamond S3 864 chipset and it was really a pain to
get it working properly under OS/2 because
Diamond had tweaked chipset so that S3 drivers which worked with other
cards having S3 chipset simply refused to work well.
In the end one of the S3 software engineer managed to get card to work but
it took months and a really lot of effort from him to get the
specs from Diamond so that he was able to get the drivers working with
Diamond.
(S3 engineer did that only for fun because Diamond didn't give good drivers
for OS/2.)

After that I have always stayed as far as possible from Diamond products.
(But because of that driver developer I bought later 2 other S3-chipset
based cards)

Mika




                                                                                       
                                                             
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Submitted 01-Aug-00 by Gilbert Baron:
> Is there any answer to this yet/ If not, what does one do with LINUX,
just
> say to oneself ahh well, we don't support you modern and common hardware
but
> that is ok, just use an older version. Boy that makes for confidence in
this
> toy.

The ext2 filesystem has been going through some revisions, especially as
implemented by Mandrake, over the past eight months.  As has been
previously
suggested, try formatting the partitions with the installer as opposed to
using prepared partitions.  As far as your snyde remarks, many of us have
tried to help you, explained what your problems are, and you have refused
to
listen.

Your unsupported video card is far from common.  If you purchased hardware
manufactured by companies whose purse-strings weren't tied by Microsoft,
perhaps you would have fewer problems.  Diamond Multimedia has made it
abundantly clear that they do not and will not support any operating system
other than Windows.  Perhaps instead of blaming Linux, you should look at
the company that not only refuses to provide drivers, but will not give
anyone else the information necessary to create the drivers.

As to what one does with Linux, it varies from user to user and
installation
to installation.  Personally, I use Linux for 100% of my computing needs.
Even my favorite video game has been ported, and so now I have no reason to
use Windows for anything.

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