On 5/6/08, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I use them for firewalls and disk servers. For that they work
> quite well. Yes, graphics are painfully slow, but I think that's the
> fault of the integrated graphics. Using a PCI graphics card seems
> to speed them up quite a bit.
>
> One of
On 4/9/08, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088
>
> would this be good news for the community? This is really mainly
> Linux-related, but i'm hoping that their mention of "technical
> documentation" wil
* frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-09 22:19]:
> hmm, on Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:35:18PM -0400, bofh said that
> > Sun learnt a lot of lessons when it tried to merge sparc and x86 code bases
> > together around the solaris 2.4 time, iirc. That's why things like zfs are
> > endian neutra
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:25:50PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> well, if both codecs and the digital chip are well documented, how
> they are connected is not too hard to guess. There's an EEPROM that
> gives hints.
You're right: "if". ;)
But found some more info about the other chips:
htt
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:47:37PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:36:51PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
>
> > - first, envy24 is a generic digital only chip; it's connected to
> >up to 4 codecs that do the analog<->digital conversions and that
> >hold the
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:36:51PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> - first, envy24 is a generic digital only chip; it's connected to
>up to 4 codecs that do the analog<->digital conversions and that
>hold the gain knobs. So to add support for a new cards we must
>add support for its
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:54AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:26AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
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> > > Yes, I noticed it's there - but does the driver support all of the
> > > available
> > > capabilities?
> >
> > according to BUGS in envy(4), no. but emu(4)
Hi!
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:12:49PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
>hmm, on Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:35:18PM -0400, bofh said that
>> Sun learnt a lot of lessons when it tried to merge sparc and x86 code bases
>> together around the solaris 2.4 time, iirc. That's why things like zfs are
>> endia
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
>
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088
>
> would this be good news for the community? This is really mainly
> Linux-related, but i'm hoping that their mention of "technical
> documentation" will be good enough for Open to be
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:26AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
> > > Yes, I noticed it's there - but does the driver support all of the
> available
> > > capabilities?
> >
> > according to BUGS in envy(4), no. but e
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:26AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > Yes, I noticed it's there - but does the driver support all of the available
> > capabilities?
>
> according to BUGS in envy(4), no. but emu(4) doesn't support all
> the features of the emu10k1 chips, either.
I understand - but t
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:11:47AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:49:07PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
> > > So, perhaps the best audio-option would be something using VIA Envy24(HT)
> > > -
> > > which is reportedly better than Audigy(2)? Time to swap?
> >
> > env
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:49:07PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > So, perhaps the best audio-option would be something using VIA Envy24(HT) -
> > which is reportedly better than Audigy(2)? Time to swap?
>
> envy(4) already exists in -current (and will be in 4.3). doesn't support
> the HT version
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:57:05PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:07:08PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
>
> > > It took us a very long time to get Sun to do this, and it was totally
> > > worth it. It is kind of strange to us to have Sun suddenly be the
> > > perfec
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:07:08PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
> > It took us a very long time to get Sun to do this, and it was totally
> > worth it. It is kind of strange to us to have Sun suddenly be the
> > perfect example of openness.
So, perhaps the best audio-option would be something u
hmm, on Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:35:18PM -0400, bofh said that
> Sun learnt a lot of lessons when it tried to merge sparc and x86 code bases
> together around the solaris 2.4 time, iirc. That's why things like zfs are
> endian neutral. OpenBSD started in the multi cpu world to begin with.
i might
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a bit OT, but
> i just had the pleasure of meeting and ex-sun employee, working
> mostly on kernel stuff. i dont know how similar the opensolaris
> and solaris kernels are, but he said the solaris kernel code is
> a beau
hmm, on Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:25:25AM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that
> It took us a very long time to get Sun to do this, and it was totally
> worth it. It is kind of strange to us to have Sun suddenly be the
> perfect example of openness.
a bit OT, but
i just had the pleasure of meeting and ex
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088
>
> would this be good news for the community? This is really mainly
> Linux-related, but i'm hoping that their mention of "technical
> documentation" will be good enough for Open to be able to support them...
D
On 2008-04-09, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088
>
> would this be good news for the community?
Too early to say, they haven't released anything yet.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=2088
would this be good news for the community? This is really mainly
Linux-related, but i'm hoping that their mention of "technical
documentation" will be good enough for Open to be able to support them...
-jf
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