Hello again,
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Vanilla Riddle wrote:
> Until now I've only had experience with nVidia graphics cards drivers for
> X. They suck real bad
Yup.
> and now that I've even unistalled them and put my Matrox back in I
> can't get X to use hardware acceleration at all - no idea why.
Sorry, [OT:] But you could try 4.4.0.
> > Yes, things have improved specifically for VIA problems but maybe not
> > for all of them...
> I suppose upgrading my BIOS won't help? It's probably all hard-coded in
> the chipset's firmware, right?
Right.
> Well, to my great relief, the mouse turned out to be fine
:) Never really doubted it.
> Ah, I forgot 2.4 had two versions of the host controllers ...
> And now that I remember, I recall trying both. With no success
:(
> I take it you also had to resort to trying diffrent versions of the
> kernel? Some stubborn piece of hardware as well?
A stubborn VIA chipset, actually. Gave up with it.
> > I'm suggesting you experiment
>
> Okay. But I'm not convinced to trying it all blind, I'll try searching
> the web beforehand, now that I know what's the problem's source.
Yep, blind isn't good. Methodical investigation is good.
> > PS: can we try to keep it down to one message per day? :)
> Sorry, I didn't realize I was bothering anyone in this way.
Not really a bother, it's just more difficult to reply to interleaved
questions, especially since this is a very busy list, and sometimes it
helps you to paint a fuller picture if you ruminate about the messages
before hitting the 'send' button. There was a good example of that in
a concurrent thread... :)
> I promise this is the last today. :-)
Received: by shadowlands.zaczek (Postfix, from userid 1000)
id 4F7C3974FA0; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:51:48 +0100 (CET)
Eight minutes 12 seconds to go by my watch. :)
73,
Ged.
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