Guess you've never heard of the framebuffer device, which is also part of the bootup code, but can be turned on/off during bootup, or just not compiled into the kernel at all...
Again, if you don't like a feature, no one is forcing you to use it. Hell, fork your own damned kernel, but stop your fucking whining.
You, sir, are the biggest idiot I've had the displeasure of reading on Slashdot so far today.
Excuse me, but has anyone ever forced you to compile a certain feature into your kernel? Will anyone ever force you to do so? Didn't think so, so please shut the fuck up. Thanks.
I just want to point out that I've identified fixes to 3 open source projects before to make them cross platform and the authors don't respond because "if it isn't linux, they don't care".
We're more likely to believe you if you tell us what the projects are... Otherwise, it just looks like you're bragging about something that isn't true.
Actually, as of R5, BeOS's multimedia support is lacking... Most videos created using the Media Kit will not play back on most other platforms (Windows and Mac, primarily)...
Video capture is out of the question, of course, since there's no software for it. There's a program called xatitv that works well, but it hasn't been updated in about 5 months, is quite beta and doesn't enable bilinear filtering on the TV image, giving you the 'line effect' when the image moves sideways. (Remember that PAL/NTSC are
interlaced)
I guess you're not aware that the developers of xatitv have been spending quite a while merging their code into the r128 Xv extension, allowing user to use xawtv to view video. There is also an effort underway in getting the video4linux loopback device to use the Xv extension as an input source, thereby making the Rage 128 cards (and, hopefully any card with an Xv extension) v4l capable.
but if you're considering buying one to run in X, I'd suggest you stay away from the voodoo4/5 line until they produce some better drivers.
In the past few months, the major development on the Voodoo drivers has been done in the experimental DRI cvs branches. As a result, the main trunk (which the 3dfx drivers are based on) hasn't seen much change in regard to the Voodoo cards.. There have, in fact, been some major advances in the drivers. FSAA and SLI is almost functioning on the tdfx-2-1 branch, and the core driver has almost been completely rewritten in the tdfx-3-0-0 branch. You should hopefully see these advances merged into the main trunk in the not-too-distant future. (This does not constituate guarantee or a time line... This is simply my impression from reading the dri-devel mailing list).
True... But when someone is pulling a good picture from his TV card, using Xv can make it look much better than it would without Xv. Trust me on this. I have one display on an i810 and another display on a V5500. The i810 does do the scaling and filtering and the image quality is much better.
Not quite true... The Xvideo extension can be used to improve the visual quality.. On certain drivers (for example, the i810) this allows for high quality hardware scaling and filtering.
It's pretty difficult to explain, and I'm certainly not the most qualified to do so:-)
Guess I could have made myself cleaner... This is the first version of XFree86 that has GeForce2 support from the XFree86 drivers. Earlier versions had GeForce2 support from binary drivers from nVidia.
Updates to nv for GeForce2: Hah! BeOS had GeForce2 support before X!
No. BeOS had GeForce2 support before XFree86's drivers. X, as a windowing system, has had support for the GeForce2 under XFree86 from nVidia's drivers for noticably longer.
Can't help it if you don't understand common logic... People who commit assault should be jailed for even longer. But that's another fight. This fight is against computer fraud and forgery.
As much as I may like pictures of nude men on occaision, this idea kind of scares me. I'm not sure that most Slashdotters are the kind of men I'd want to look at...
And what if all the minor things you, me or anyone has ever done were punished by a prison sentence, would that be just too?
What you fail to realize is that what he did is not a minor thing... He stole time and money from millions of people and committed fraud millions of times.
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Unlike DOS, though, we can all have the source to Linux and make any of the various hardware support features optional.
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Guess you've never heard of the framebuffer device, which is also part of the bootup code, but can be turned on/off during bootup, or just not compiled into the kernel at all...
Again, if you don't like a feature, no one is forcing you to use it. Hell, fork your own damned kernel, but stop your fucking whining.
You, sir, are the biggest idiot I've had the displeasure of reading on Slashdot so far today.
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Excuse me, but has anyone ever forced you to compile a certain feature into your kernel? Will anyone ever force you to do so? Didn't think so, so please shut the fuck up. Thanks.
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In America you can wear a Nazi symbol, have an anti-black, gay, semite website and that is OK.
But you also be convicted of a felony in parts of the US for having oral sex... And you're complaining about Europe?
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I just want to point out that I've identified fixes to 3 open source projects before to make them cross platform and the authors don't respond because "if it isn't linux, they don't care".
We're more likely to believe you if you tell us what the projects are... Otherwise, it just looks like you're bragging about something that isn't true.
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Actually, as of R5, BeOS's multimedia support is lacking... Most videos created using the Media Kit will not play back on most other platforms (Windows and Mac, primarily)...
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If we're going to start assuming things, why not just assume that even more are afraid to fill out the surveys truthfully and up the number to 10%?
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Video capture is out of the question, of course, since there's no software for it. There's a program called xatitv that works well, but it hasn't been updated in about 5 months, is quite beta and doesn't enable bilinear filtering on the TV image, giving you the 'line effect' when the image moves sideways. (Remember that PAL/NTSC are interlaced)
I guess you're not aware that the developers of xatitv have been spending quite a while merging their code into the r128 Xv extension, allowing user to use xawtv to view video. There is also an effort underway in getting the video4linux loopback device to use the Xv extension as an input source, thereby making the Rage 128 cards (and, hopefully any card with an Xv extension) v4l capable.
Check out the livid-gatos website for more info.
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but if you're considering buying one to run in X, I'd suggest you stay away from the voodoo4/5 line until they produce some better drivers.
In the past few months, the major development on the Voodoo drivers has been done in the experimental DRI cvs branches. As a result, the main trunk (which the 3dfx drivers are based on) hasn't seen much change in regard to the Voodoo cards.. There have, in fact, been some major advances in the drivers. FSAA and SLI is almost functioning on the tdfx-2-1 branch, and the core driver has almost been completely rewritten in the tdfx-3-0-0 branch. You should hopefully see these advances merged into the main trunk in the not-too-distant future. (This does not constituate guarantee or a time line... This is simply my impression from reading the dri-devel mailing list).
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There are currently 2D Radeon drivers in the DRI cvs and possibly in XFree86 4.0.2. The DRI team is also working on the 3D drivers.
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blame: yes...
legal responsibility: no.
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Not when he's asked to do it by someone who does not have the authority to do so.
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True... But when someone is pulling a good picture from his TV card, using Xv can make it look much better than it would without Xv. Trust me on this. I have one display on an i810 and another display on a V5500. The i810 does do the scaling and filtering and the image quality is much better.
Ranessin
Not quite true... The Xvideo extension can be used to improve the visual quality.. On certain drivers (for example, the i810) this allows for high quality hardware scaling and filtering.
It's pretty difficult to explain, and I'm certainly not the most qualified to do so
Ranessin
Guess I could have made myself cleaner... This is the first version of XFree86 that has GeForce2 support from the XFree86 drivers. Earlier versions had GeForce2 support from binary drivers from nVidia.
Ranessin
Updates to nv for GeForce2: Hah! BeOS had GeForce2 support before X!
No. BeOS had GeForce2 support before XFree86's drivers. X, as a windowing system, has had support for the GeForce2 under XFree86 from nVidia's drivers for noticably longer.
Ranessin
Can't help it if you don't understand common logic... People who commit assault should be jailed for even longer. But that's another fight. This fight is against computer fraud and forgery.
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Please excuse my somewhat off-topic post, but...
Has anyone here heard of a V4L plugin for The GIMP? I tried the one from SANE (which has a v4l backend) but it failed miserably.
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As much as I may like pictures of nude men on occaision, this idea kind of scares me. I'm not sure that most Slashdotters are the kind of men I'd want to look at...
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Let's have the script-fu work regardless of the sex of the person in the image...
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But, in this case of computer forgery, 7 years is not a just amount of time to serve in a prison.
So in cases of computer forgery, it's not just? Why should computer forgery differ from other kinds of forgery?
Maliciously assaulting a person might get you 7 years, or less. So, how can this compare?
And maliciously assaulting a person should also get you at least ten years, so they don't compare...
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Obviously you didn't read my post, now did you?
Committed forgery millions of times...
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And what if all the minor things you, me or anyone has ever done were punished by a prison sentence, would that be just too?
What you fail to realize is that what he did is not a minor thing... He stole time and money from millions of people and committed fraud millions of times.
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BeOS supports up to 24 seperate audio channels, so if you ever find a card with 24 line outs...
Interesting... So why doesn't it support the two line outs on the SoundBlaster Live!
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In effect he stole and committed forgery.
Stole time and money from millions of people. Committed forgery millions of times...
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