I am happy to hear you found a solution to the problem. The next workshop at McKinley is this Saturday from 1pm-6pm. Hope to see you then.
Michael Hawaii Linux Institute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 07/08/2003 07:12:58 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [luau] Demo Linux Desktop PC As I mentioned previously, I had some problems with the VIA KM266 driver. From a reply that I just received from Via, it appears that this problem is quite solvable (see attached). The problem is, I don't have time to do it. Thus, I am thinking about bring the demo to McKinley and we will try to do it together. (I.e., while I am installing the driver, I will use the time slot to show this demo, though only preliminarily, so that time can be best utilized.) I will try to bring it during the next HOSEF workshop. If the timing is bad, I will try to work with Michael to find a better time slot. BTW, I had a party this 4th of July weekend, and all my colleagues (who are lawyers) loved this little but extremely powerful and versatile machine. Wayne Received: by mail03.powweb.com (mbox wpuniver) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Tue Jul 8 20:49:03 2003) X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 8 20:14:43 2003 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail1.viaarena.com (unknown [217.158.66.147]) by mail03.powweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3678C1BBFE for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [12.47.62.252] by 9netmail1.viaarena.com (GMS 9.00.3136/KW0275.00.2778f149) with ESMTP id ewvihaaa for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:14:24 +0100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Richard Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: KM266 Driver for Red Hat 9 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:14:22 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=" ----=_NextPart_000_0336_01C3460B.3F8BB190" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AuthenticatedSender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [12.47.62.252] Wayne: Thks very much for your email and highlighting this issue. I did follow up with our driver team, and they provided the following response. Under RH9.0 full set, the VESA driver is included. I am not sure if upgrade version has VESA or not. If with RH 9.0 full set, attached file is a test report to install the KM266 (ProSavageDDR) driver. I hope this is helpful to you. We do take the concerns of the Linux very seriously and over the past few months have been working very hard to improve our levels of support. We have extensive information our support site at www.viaarena.com. Best regards Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hawaii Linux Institute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:53 PM Subject: KM266 Driver for Red Hat 9 > Sir: > > Recently I purchased a ShuttleX SK41G, which, as you are probably aware, > comes with Via KM266 chipset. With Red Hat 8, which provides a VESA > driver, the performance of KM266 is very similar to nVidia nForce2 > (ShuttleX SN41G). > > However, there is no driver for KM266 when I upgraded my system to Red > Hat 9. The VESA driver is not included in Red Hat 9 (or Mandrake 9.1 or > Knoppix 3.2). The nv driver works for the nVidia chipset in all of > those Linux distros. > > This explains the sad fact that while SK41 (with Via's KM266) is > substantially cheaper than SN41 (with nVidia's nForce2, everything else > being equal), no one seems to care about SK41. > > By ignoring the Linux market, you are screwing yourself worse than you > do to the Linux community. And I am GLAD that you are paying a hefty > price for your stupid actions. > > Respectfully, > > > W. Wayne Liauh, Ph.D., J.D. > Attorney and Counselor at Law > (See attached file: VIA RH9 ProSavage and ProSavageDDR Display Driver Test Report.zip)
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