Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.2.18 vs Inspiron | From | Brad Douglas <> | Date | 18 Dec 2000 15:24:00 -0800 |
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On 17 Dec 2000 05:07:01 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [James Simmons] > > Ah the infamous Rage Mobility chipset. Three versions of the same > > chipset but each is very different. > > I knew it was bad when ATI refuses to publish Windows drivers -- they > basically say "get drivers from your laptop vendor, there is *no* > generic driver that works for everyone".
That's not entirely correct. True enough, they have a very confusing naming scheme, but that shouldn't set us back too far.
Rage Mobility/M1 = Mach64 M3 = Rage128 M4 = Radeon
For ATI's Mach64 based cards, they chose to let the vendor pick the DAC that best suited their needs. While this is good from an economical perspective, it caused massive support headaches. Needless to say, ATI no longer uses this model. It's not that they refused to publish drivers, they just screwed themselves out of being able to.
Brad Douglas brad@neruo.com
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