On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:26AM +0000, 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 the mentioned "VIA opening" is suggesting, that perhaps > completing the envy driver can be much easier, if VIA will release the > docs; > Creative Labs, unfortunately, still doesn't seem to be willing to. > oh it's more than that! Creative: the company that sues you for your drivers. And gets to decide which features it will want to enable its drivers for you, the consumer. How's that for a creative perspective on the rights of the customer! http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/03/29/046201.shtml -Jeff -- In the meantime, here is your PSA: "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
