[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

jonathan michaels jlm at caamora.com.au
Sat Feb 2 20:35:21 EST 2008


On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:18:14PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +1100, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
> >The world has moved on. All modern graphics cards now have their own 
> >dedicated CPU (GPU) which is often considerably more powerful than the 
> >computer's mainboard CPU.
> 
> Most of which aren't documented so X can't use the GPU unless the
> vendor releases a binary driver.  (Though AMD is releasing documentation
> for some of the ATI GPUs and Intel have just released documentation on
> a couple of their newer GPUs).

thats part of teh reason that i've always thought that the best
way was to get .. well its a matter of waiting for teh
information to filter through .. i suppose

thanks/appreciations

regards

jonathan

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