well, yeah. My point was that intel should just release a patch to fix the driver (or specs to let us fix it) rather than "fixing" the bios and making us wait for dell to (possibly) update the bios.
Alex --- "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Simple. Because the Windows drivers have workarounds built into > them which manually program the chipset to do what the BIOS > should, but is not doing. Why do they just work in Windows? > Because 95% of the desktop market is Windows, and the various > companies involved have a lot of money tied up in making sure > things just work the first time they hit the public eye the > majority of time. As such problems like this are fixed in > Windows-land long before end users ever realize there was a > problem that needed to be fixed. > > In the land of OSS however, we do not have that same status. We > get specifications for hardware long after the fact if ever from > the majority of video hardware companies, and when someone > releases hardware with a broken BIOS that needs software driver > workarounds, someone needs to know what the exact problem is, and > then also have access to the specifications to know how to code > those workarounds, and also have the hardware in question in > order to test it. > > So it is no surprise that what works in Windows is not any form > of indicator of what works in XFree86. They are 2 different > environments, not privy to the same amount of technical > information as each other, and with very different number of > manpower working on each, and with IHV pressure also being quite > different for each. > > > > -- > Mike A. Harris > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
