On November 13, 2002 09:40 pm, joe wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:15, Spencer wrote:
> > On November 13, 2002 08:58 pm, Franki wrote:
> > I take exception to anyone adding ATI to the list. Although ATI doesn't
> > produce drivers themselves, they provide a great deal of information to
> > the gatos and XFree developers on the various cards. The drivers that ATI
> > have for Windows are no screaming hell and were one of the many reasons I
> > switched to Linux 4 years ago. Most of the problems dealing with these
> > cards is not ATI but Macromedia.
I stand corrected. Its late and I'm tired;(
>
> I believe you mean macrovision: the copy protection scheme that ATI
> builds into their cards. If I remember correctly the information
> provided by ATI to gatos and XFree was incomplete because macrovision is
> proprietary; thus no stable ATI.2 drivers with TV-out, no Xfree driver
> with TV out.
>
>
> Also no DRI with my PCI radeon (32mb), I think perhaps that one is
> related to a bug in the radeon driver rather than a lack of information
> from ATI.
>
>
>
> Check out the gatos-development list sometime and you
>
> > will see what I mean. My 2 cents, change please ;-)
> >
> > Spence
> >
> > > its in the list, along with most of their other newer cards
> > >
> > > rgds
> > >
> > > frank....
> > >
> > >
> > > keep em coming..
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Chad
> > > Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:43 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
> > >
> > >
> > > Please add the ATI All-In-Wonder cards to your list (all versions). 
> > > These are wonderful cards & cheap too.  They provide a whole movie
> > > studio on a video card.  Cable TV IN, S & Composite Video IN & OUT,
> > > Audio IN & OUT, Monitor out.  The software that comes with these cards
> > > for Windows is great. Sure with I had it to work with in Linux.
> > >
> > > Chad
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Franki
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:57 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
> > >
> > >
> > > common guys, I am compiling a list of companies that don't have linux
> > > drivers that are commonly asked for...
> > >
> > > you guys should tell me.. from now on, when i see an email about it, I
> > > will add them to the list..
> > >
> > > then I can knock up a script that keeps tallies and helps the process
> > > along..
> > >
> > > let me know hardware that you wish had linux drivers and pref their
> > > email address...
> > >
> > > I'll make up a script to help things along..
> > >
> > >
> > > rgds
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of joe
> > > Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 11:42 AM
> > > To: newbie
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:32, Franki wrote:
> > > > one email will do nothing, ten emails will do little, fifty emails
> > > > and the tech guy will ask someone what to do about it.. then the ball
> > > > starts rolling..
> > >
> > > OK you have convinced me. I am going to spend some time writing ATI a
> > > few words.
> >
> > ----
> >
> >
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