Using S3's Savage drivers

2003-07-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Hi, I've been running S3's Savage driver (version 1.1.18 S3) for the last few days. I've been using a somewhat hackish setup, using - the 2D driver within a current CVS HEAD server; - the kernel module built from 4.2.0 sources and a heavily patched 2.4.18 kernel; - the 3D driver built

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:25:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: No, there you are exagerating. I hardly doubt that they would go broke or whatever if they released open source drivers. If anything, they would sell more boards. Not very many, and their competitirs would then have access to all

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tim Roberts wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 20:16:35 -0500, William Suetholz wrote: In business terms, the Linux market is not relevant. Sad but true. For consumer desktop that's true. There is one potential business case in the

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Nils Faerber
Am Sam, 2003-07-19 um 17.52 schrieb Fred Heitkamp: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tim Roberts wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 20:16:35 -0500, William Suetholz wrote: In business terms, the Linux market is not relevant. Sad but true. For consumer desktop that's

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:52:47AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They probably use a Mac (Apple OS of some kind)

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread rjh
On 19 Jul, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:52:47AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They probably

Solution for 855GM video memory issue

2003-07-19 Thread Christian Zietz
Hi, PLEASE CC any answers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not subscribed to the list. first, my problem as summarized by David H. Dawes: It appears that some 855GM-based laptops only pre-allocate 1MB of video memory, and don't provide any BIOS configuration options for increasing this. Although the

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Fred Heitkamp wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tim Roberts wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 20:16:35 -0500, William Suetholz wrote: In business terms, the Linux market is not relevant. Sad but true. For consumer desktop that's

RE: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: For consumer desktop that's true. There is one potential business case in the professional desktop market. SGI's, HP's and Sun's old workstation customers have been moving over to Linux. Thats no market secret to anyone at all. You just

RE: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Alexander Stohr wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: From: Fred Heitkamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big film studios don't use Linux

RE: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
From: William Suetholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mr. Harris, yes I am one of Those people who want a device to work in my chosen operating system, /me wants Commodore 64 - BASIC BIOS 2.0 support, call it my favorite! Cool machine, boots in 2 seconds to a fully useable prompt. It must be an