On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski  wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:08:26AM +0000, 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) 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