On Thursday 20 March 2008 08:33 pm, Rony wrote: > > > > Right blame HCL for the lack of drivers. The driver issue we face > > is simply because the open source drivers dont work well and the > > proprietary NVidia ( now merged with AMD ) work like _ _ _ _.
> Anyway, GNU compatibility is not just dependent on the > chipset but also the BIOS of the motherboard. No. Linux or X does not depend on the bios at all. > That is why 2 Intel > 845 boards of different types will not have the same result in GNU. > I faced this problem when trying out GLVA, GVSR etc. One of them ?? > would not give screen resol. beyond 640x480 when installed out of > the box. Similarly with AMD boards, it varies from case to case and > on chipsets. The "same" chipsets are not quite the same from 1 rev to the next. Some of them have bugs which will surface now and then. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
