From: Jeffrey 'jf' Lim (jfs.worldgmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2008 - 21:16:15 CDT

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <zbispid.com.pl> 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

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