Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:13:28 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 10:39 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: > >> Some SiS based motherboards offer both an integrated video and AMD > >> processor support. > >> > KS> unfortunately that sis chip has a hardware bug (or so the xorg module > KS> tells me) which makes dri impossible, and video overlay extremely bad.. > > Care to tell some more? I'm just considering purchasing a SiS or ULi > based mainboard for AMD64 and would like to get the details about this > SiS problem. > this is my experience with my brothers laptop, its an asus, i cant remember model off hand, it has a sempron 3000+ cpu, and some sis chipset.
i installed linux on it due to him having excessive windows problems.. the xorg log told me i couldnt get dri, because of some hardware problem, then it gave me a link, which i cant remember either, which explained much more in detail about this.. and the thing about the video overlay i do remember, it was something about some shared memory it uses for the card which made the video overlay not work good, in both windows and linux as far as i remember.. and it was true, video did sometimes stutter and such.. and there is no dri..
i will contact my brother to get some more info..
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