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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: X-Server for Silicon Motion Lynx.
> Wow, fun ... fun ... fun, just keep thinking those words and
> maybe you'll survive. It looks like somebody took an
> industrial embedded aplications video chip and put it in a
> laptop as a cheap substitute for an ATI Rage, etc. Not an
> perfect solution (doesn't appear to have video accel/decoding
> ect. but that doesn't always work the rest of us either) but I
> supose it works.
Sounds about right - Atlas do cut quite a few corners to keep the cost down.
> According to Silicon Motion's FAQ under "Where are the
> Linux drivers!?", OEMs were provided with an alpha Linux
> driver.
The same applies to ALL Silicon Motion drivers, not just Linux :-( As I
said above, Atlas operate to a budget...
Oh well.
I've started trying to get more 'into' Linux. I've had way too many years
of watching Micro$oft head the way of MacOS ("We can't think why you should
ever want to do that, therefore the system doesn't let you..."). I always
thought that computers were supposed to be OUR slaves, not vice-versa!
Anyway, thanks very much for your help - it was greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ozz.
