Re: [SLE] Rhetorical question

On 21/09/06, Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 20/09/06 17:15, M Harris wrote:
>On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:45, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>
>>Can you think of any reason why Novell doesn't support a SBAwe32 (which
>>is the card I referred to before)? The source (included in the kernel
>>source package) certainly *seems* to be open-source.
>>
> Perhaps its because the card is ISA circa 1994 [ talk about wanting
to
>keep your dinosaur around... ] :) But seriously, I have an ISA
SBawe32
>also... one of my favorites--- which is why I keep my old HW around...
you
>know, pretty soon we aren't going to be able to find a machine to plug em
>into!
>
I thought about that, and while you may be right, that always seemed to
me to be a rather underhanded way to suggest that I should cause that
thing to disappear :-) Actually, the real reason I am no longer using it
is because the 2.6 kernel doesn't seem to like the Via Apollo
chipset/K6-2 combination I had it in (read: frequent system lockups).
The current motherboard has no ISA slots, or I'd probably still have the
SBAwe installed.
>>Of course, if you are an absolute purist, like Mr Harris, then you will
>>just boycott those products, and refuse to use them at all -- even past
>>the day when one of them becomes the de facto standard, and the
>>present-day DVD has gone the way of the dinosaur.
>>
> Oh, please. Trust us here... if the device is going to be a de
facto
>standard there will certainly be open drivers for it. On the other hand,
many
Don't hold your breath :-) (and a Blu-Ray equivalent of libdvdcss
doesn't count).
>
>of us are just plain through with being strong-armed (really held
hostage)
>into running Redmond's junk OS just because "this silly card only runs on
>Windoze, with a proprietary Windoze driver....
This reminds me, the ATI and nVidia stuff is all proprietary.. you gonna
start running SiS chipset video cards? :-)

(duck'n'run)

--


My ATI hardware runs fine on open-source drivers. I don't run games on my
PCs, but if I wanted to run games, I would get a games machine.

Jeff Rollin

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