Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: > On 9/4/06, John Sheahan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I figured out how to get impact working with fc3 once, I can dig that >> out if its useful. It did involve kernel module compilation.
> It sounds like Linux is all but unsupported still. Token efforts of > supporting Linux by only supporting one configuration of one > distribution is not, in my opinion, an honest approach to saying, "We > support Linux." I suppose I can give it a try, but with my past > history with installing way-flakey software in the past, it sounds > like it'd just plain be easier for me to go with Windows. Well, I've run the Xilinx tools on various incarnations of SuSE on AMD64 for a while now. The PC-IV driver doesn't work because it's a 32bit driver, but impact does otherwise function on my Linux. In fact, I don't think there is any version of Linux that it does *not* work with, so you should be fine. There are some answer records for various portability glitches. As for it being less flakey on Windows, well... it just ain't super-wonderfull-happy-as-a-mac software, Windows or Linux. It's former Unix software ported to Windows, and back again :-/ -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep." _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user