Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:55:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:55:15 -0500 Received: from c1262263-a.grapid1.mi.home.com ([24.183.135.182]:28178 "EHLO mail.neruo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:55:06 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.2.18 vs Inspiron From: Brad Douglas To: Peter Samuelson Cc: James Simmons , Bob Lorenzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20001217050700.U3199@cadcamlab.org> In-Reply-To:

<20001217050700.U3199@cadcamlab.org> Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Evolution 0.8 (Developer Preview) Date: 18 Dec 2000 15:24:00 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20001218235512Z129391-439+4806@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17 Dec 2000 05:07:01 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [James Simmons] > > Ah the infamous Rage Mobility chipset. Three versions of the same > > chipset but each is very different. > > I knew it was bad when ATI refuses to publish Windows drivers -- they > basically say "get drivers from your laptop vendor, there is *no* > generic driver that works for everyone". That's not entirely correct. True enough, they have a very confusing naming scheme, but that shouldn't set us back too far. Rage Mobility/M1 = Mach64 M3 = Rage128 M4 = Radeon For ATI's Mach64 based cards, they chose to let the vendor pick the DAC that best suited their needs. While this is good from an economical perspective, it caused massive support headaches. Needless to say, ATI no longer uses this model. It's not that they refused to publish drivers, they just screwed themselves out of being able to. Brad Douglas brad@neruo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/