David, if you manage to get close to some specs and clues I'll be interested, in my case it's not dust I'll have to remove but dirt I'll have to shovel off that grave where my scant assembler and various programming languages skills have been burried for soooooo long. cheers Lionel PS I have been disabling energy saving devices everywhere I find them in these damn boxes, that way I am saving MY energy --- David McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > As for needing 3D acceleration, I agree. Ultimately, I too will be needing a >working 3d > accelerated video card for my Linux boot. The problem is that I am still a little >gun shy about > buying yet another video card when I already spent $400 on this ATI Radeon 64 DDR >VIVO (and it > was supposedly the better card for Linux/Mesa/OpenGL support). Ironically, this >card finally > actually works as advertised in Windows XP Home (which is the first time I've ever >seen it pull > in composite video at all, as this feature never worked in Windows ME either). I >built my > Windows XP Home boot on an extra drive on this box, so I guess I'm interested in >holding out a > little longer to see whether there isn't a way to fix this driver issue for my Linux >boot (he > said as he dusted off his Gnu C compiler and began looking for specs and clues on >how to get > started writing/fixing video device drivers...). In the meantime, there are plenty >of reasons > to run Linux aside from 3d acceleration. <snip> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
