On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:57, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just to share my experiences. I acquired a Pentium4 chipset and ditto > > motherboard (Intel D845WN). To boot I received a lovely present: > > a Hercules prophet 4000XT (64mb) video card.---- Sheer horror! The whole > > lot put together. > > > > The motherboard has a (not too helpful) cd-ROM with it. It (of course) > > contains m$ drivers, but not the right ones...well done, wintel!:( > > > > Mdk8.1 installed reasonably well, considering it didn't recognize any of > > the chipsets........ but the Hercules AGP card (with Kyroschips) was/is a > > killer. I can handle a gui at 16 bits...That's it!!...:( > > And frankly that's the only (major) hassle I haven't been able to deal > > with, as of yet. > > Kyros has been going out of its way to be uncooperative for drivers, and if > their corporate attitude continues through the passage of UCITA, then even > reverse-engineering drivers will not be possible, because it will be > illegal. > > But right now, it appears if you want gaming performance in linux, look > elsewhere.
Right!!! That's clear enough. Now this card was bought brand new, it's been in my PC i.e. it's unpacked. I would definitely like to bring this 'thing' back with some arguments that hopefully would make a diff if more were to do so(and if not at least make the shop think twice when acquiring non-linux gadgets). Any helpfull thoughts? T.i.a, Harm Bathoorn
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