Re: openfirmware display
Kin Chung wrote:
>
> >Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:02:02PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry I have to say this, but the NVidia card is really a bad
> > > > choice for Linux.
> > >
> > > truer words were never spoken...
> > >
> > > hopefully apple won't go nvidia only in thier hardware...
> >
> >Absolutely, in particular I hope they'll go for the Radeon Mobility
> >in favour of the GeForce2 Go for the next batch of TiBooks. With the
> >desktops, one can always get a better card, but with PowerBooks...
>
> Perhaps not the best solution, but in about 6 months from now, _all_
> Macs will ship with OSX,
They already do.
> so it should be possible to hack/kludge the OSX support for, say the NVidia,
> into the Linux kernel. So, as long as you own a copy of OSX, it might not
> be too bad.
Bad luck, Apple doesn't release the interesting code anymore, it's all in
modules outside the Darwin kernel.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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