Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 10:39 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> >> Some SiS based motherboards offer both an integrated video and AMD
> >> processor support.
> >> 
> KS> unfortunately that sis chip has a hardware bug (or so the xorg module
> KS> tells me) which makes dri impossible, and video overlay extremely bad..
> 
> Care to tell some more? I'm just considering purchasing a SiS or ULi
> based mainboard for AMD64 and would like to get the details about this
> SiS problem.
> 
this is my experience with my brothers laptop, its an asus, i cant
remember model off hand, it has a sempron 3000+ cpu, and some sis
chipset.

i installed linux on it due to him having excessive windows problems..
the xorg log told me i couldnt get dri, because of some hardware
problem, then it gave me a link, which i cant remember either, which
explained much more in detail about this.. and the thing about the video
overlay i do remember, it was something about some shared memory it uses
for the card which made the video overlay not work good, in both windows
and linux as far as i remember.. and it was true, video did sometimes
stutter and such.. and there is no dri..

i will contact my brother to get some more info..

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