Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Yuri wrote: Can't there be something added such as an easy to search for FAQ so this topic doesn't come up 2-7 times per month? I know people should use a search engine and search for the information first, but people seem extremely lazy and always ask current@, hackers@, and questions@, a

Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?

2007-11-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kip Macy wrote: On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yuri wrote: I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to exp

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMM

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dieter wrote.. So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? We need to politely inform them that There are a lot of operating systems out there, and they all nee

Re: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Sam Lawrance wrote: On 16/06/2007, at 6:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote: Hi, Sun's pushing ATI/AMD to provide good drivers for Solaris, so it means they will have to work on the portability issue of their drivers. It is probably the best time to