Re: tlug: Sony Vaio

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> The XBF-Neomagic server will deal with it.  The non-accelerated
> reverse-engineered driver in TLJ's SVGA server will also deal with it,
> albeit not as well. 

Buying a product that uses the Neomagic chip makes Neomagic happy.  They
won't see any advantage to releasing programming specs if people buy the
equipment anyway.  This is XFree86's main objection to that RE'd Neomagic
driver.

We want to punish the companies that aren't nice to us, and reward the
companies that are ;)

> Better yet, get a different notebook that uses a C&T chipset :)

Agreed.

-- Chris

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