On 21/09/06, Darryl Gregorash
On 20/09/06 17:15, M Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:45, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Can you think of any reason why Novell doesn't support a SBAwe32 (which is the card I referred to before)? The source (included in the kernel source package) certainly *seems* to be open-source.
Perhaps its because the card is ISA circa 1994 [ talk about wanting to keep your dinosaur around... ] :) But seriously, I have an ISA SBawe32 also... one of my favorites--- which is why I keep my old HW around... you know, pretty soon we aren't going to be able to find a machine to plug em into!
I thought about that, and while you may be right, that always seemed to me to be a rather underhanded way to suggest that I should cause that thing to disappear :-) Actually, the real reason I am no longer using it is because the 2.6 kernel doesn't seem to like the Via Apollo chipset/K6-2 combination I had it in (read: frequent system lockups). The current motherboard has no ISA slots, or I'd probably still have the SBAwe installed.
Of course, if you are an absolute purist, like Mr Harris, then you will just boycott those products, and refuse to use them at all -- even past the day when one of them becomes the de facto standard, and the present-day DVD has gone the way of the dinosaur.
Oh, please. Trust us here... if the device is going to be a de facto standard there will certainly be open drivers for it. On the other hand, many Don't hold your breath :-) (and a Blu-Ray equivalent of libdvdcss doesn't count).
of us are just plain through with being strong-armed (really held hostage) into running Redmond's junk OS just because "this silly card only runs on Windoze, with a proprietary Windoze driver.... This reminds me, the ATI and nVidia stuff is all proprietary.. you gonna start running SiS chipset video cards? :-)
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My ATI hardware runs fine on open-source drivers. I don't run games on my PCs, but if I wanted to run games, I would get a games machine. Jeff Rollin