On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:23 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not > software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from? > Oh and they have too many lawyers? > > It seems to me that 2D graphics are a done deal, with no new inovation > taking place. Releasing programing specs for that part should be a no > brainer. If the nifty 3D routines are so important to keep secret from > the other guys then well keep those. Release the 2D programing specs!
Where I am (in the UK) you more or less have to buy computers in bits and put them together if you want (like I do) to shuffle bits of hardware between different machines to suit varying needs or bolt on extra bits and pieces of new hardware and above all not pay M$ tax. The nvidia card seems the only one with reasonable performance at a reasonable price that fits on most motherboards that I can find.in these parts. > m-a is module-assistant which is used on debian to build a module If I ask nicely can I download it from anywhere? I've just finished building 2.6.11.7 and it might be nice to try it. Could I possibly make a suggestion for "make xconfig" in the kernel tree (and make other-kinds-of-config I suppose)? I currently routinely copy the ".config" out of the previous kernel tree before I start to save working through questions about sound cards I never heard of and so forth. Could it perhaps optionally initialise most of the settings to fit the current machine and/or grab the last lot of settings from /proc/config.gz? John Collins Xi Software Ltd www.xisl.com Tel: +44 (0)1707 886110 (Direct) +44 (0)7799 113162 (Mobile) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
