Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 05 Jan 2003 23:40:28 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 22:45, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > >WLAN yes - openap is superb stuff > > I didn't mention an open source access point. I already have a tried
I use openap for most of my card driving. Its much more resilient.
> >ACPI - very recently become a truely open project so will I hope now > >improve > > "very recently". :-)
Serious comment - Until very very recently Intel wouldn't take community changes. Intels focus has also been on correctness, so changes to handle things like broken MS AML 1.0 output haven't gone in - which burns some toshiba users for example.
> >APM - reliable for years, bios code (the nonfree bit) often very buggy > > The APM code on my Laptop still can't figure out how to display the > battery level correctly all the time (it flips to "0%" for a few > seconds every five to ten minutes), so I can't use the "shut down if
BIOS bug
> below 5%" feature of apmd or my lap top would start shutting down > every five to ten minutes. Needless to tell that the Windows 2000 APM > has no such problem. BIOS? Really? (BTW: This is an Acer 710TE, one of
yes - BIOS. Most likely btw your Windows setup is using the ACPI interface.
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