On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 19:51 -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Paul G. Allen wrote: > > >Well, more than once I had problems getting functions to work in Linux > >that were supported by my NVIDIA based card (e.g. - Fast Writes, SBA, > >AGP 4x). I was able to get it working by modifying the source code > >supplied with the NVIDIA driver. That made me happy until they (kernel > >maintainers and NVIDIA) updated the software (kernel and driver) to > >support everything I needed. > > > > > > Then you weren't happy anymore? Why not? > >
Reading that again, I can see how you might have thought that, but that's not what I meant. When they updated the drivers and kernel, implementing the missing bits, all was right with the world without me having to maintain a separate driver for my card (at the time, both the MoBo and video card were so new neither the kernel nor NVIDIA had complete support for them). When I was a registered ATI and Matrox developer I did not get that kind of support from either of those companies. As for NVIDIA, even though I'm a rather stagnant developer, I still get updates from them as to what's going on and if I need assistance, I can get it. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
