It looks like snd_emu10k1_synth is already loaded, actually. In fact, I don't even have it in the autoloader, yet it's there... hotplug must have taken care of it.:-)
Yeah... I know that's how it's supposed to work, but somehow it doesn't when I try it. I suspect the sound banks I'm trying to load are somehow incompatible. All the guides say to use the banks on the driver disk, but when you get no driver disk with your sound card, and the files aren't generally easy to get...
I don't know. Matrox still seem to be in the market, despite the specs for even their high-end cards being out in the open.
If a company did come out and try this space, I suspect that they would be considered competitors to Matrox, not competitors to ATI and NVIDIA. After all, ATI can't even write a driver that doesn't crash X.
Maybe develop it in a different country. That way, you step on jack shit.:-)
Would this be useful for games?
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Games at the moment seem to pick one of two methods. They pick UDP, with their own reliability layer whacked on top (see: any ID software title), or they pick TCP, and suffer lag spikes (see: Ragnarok Online.)
Would this new protocol provide a way to implement reliable datagrams in a fashion that game protocol designers won't have to keep reinventing the wheel? I'm sick of all this iteration being repeated, again and again, ad infinitum.:-/
I wouldn't be so sure. Half a year ago, people thought that the A768 would never even make it to the US.
I wouldn't worry though. UK should be trialling the A780 by now, which is a much better instrument and actually does have a megapixel camera, unlike this dinosaur they're reviewing.
The funny thing is, the A768 is hardly a "new" phone by any measure. I doubt putting an "i" on the end really did anything for it either.
But oddly enough, Motorola do have an A780 which is due for release this year allegedly... or is the A780 already out? And that is still a GSM phone.
As for why... I assume it's just because not everyone wants to get sucked in by video calls. Having seen how "smooth" (intense sarcasm there) video chats are on a 3G network first-hand, I would happily say that I won't be buying a 3G phone until they fix their act.
I liked the somewhat wavy thing on the UX-50, that was sweet. Now that both Sony and Sharp have pulled out, I don't see any other good miniature keyboards in our future... unless one of those mini x86 boxes has one.
True, true. In fact, in the PDA market people generally equate "memory" and "storage" to be the same thing, so they're probably just following suit. But yeah, the actual heap available to processes on these things is rarely impressive, when it could have an entire 64MB of usable RAM so easily, along with the 64MB for OS files and another 128MB for user files.:-)
But then, the way Sharp removed both Bluetooth and Wifi from their latest model is less than impressive, too.:-/
Problems like this would ordinarily be solved using some form of sandboxing on Unix systems. Does this sort of mechanism exist for Windows? If so, all such applications could be run in their own sandbox, and prevented from evil tampering with the rest of the system.
I dunno. 128MB (SL-C750) is a lot of memory, man. That's twice as much as my T3 has, even if it's still half what a T5 has.
And we're talking about a device which can take cards, right? Buy a gig card. Even if you slotted in a gig card, you still have one slot free for your wireless.
I hope that someone will make a PDA/Smartphone in the same format as the Clie. That is: a Clie UX50 with build in GSM/CDMA capability. Bluetooth headset, of course. That'd be cool -- I could dump my cellphone.
What would be equally cool would be an SD card to provide that GSM capability on all Palm OS units. I probably wouldn't mind ditching my recently-purchased phone, if the PDA were capable of running a GSM modem 24/7 and not going flat too fast.
Interestingly, I have heard of people getting certain GSM cards to work with Zaurus for providing voice calls. But I never ended up getting to try for myself.:-/
That depends. How well are those American handhelds selling in Japan? I thought that Sharp and Sony had a stranglehold on the market over there. You could consider that to be US 0, Japan 1... but it depends where you sit.
Assuming the Zaurus continues to be based on Trolltech's Qtopia, the process of converting a Zaurus to English should still be just as easy as changing a few configuration files.:-)
As for an OSX handheld, "I heartily endorse this event or product!"
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It looks like snd_emu10k1_synth is already loaded, actually. In fact, I don't even have it in the autoloader, yet it's there... hotplug must have taken care of it. :-)
Are there any ATI drivers yet which don't crash Xorg 6.8? I can't find a single one, and I've tried every driver I can obtain.
I wouldn't mind knowing, as running Xorg 6.7 feels dirty when 6.8 is out and has so many more features.
From 2002: Matrox continues to support the Linux community and is proud to release an open source driver for its flagship product Parhelia...
Yeah... I know that's how it's supposed to work, but somehow it doesn't when I try it. I suspect the sound banks I'm trying to load are somehow incompatible. All the guides say to use the banks on the driver disk, but when you get no driver disk with your sound card, and the files aren't generally easy to get...
And while we're at it, let's blame hardware theft on expensive software, too.
Exactly. I have never had trouble with my Audigy. In contrast to trying to get my on-board VIA working, Audigy was (and still is) a dream.
Well, except for MIDI. I can't figure out why my MIDI banks won't load into the card... so I still use software rendering, which feels wrong. :-/
I don't know. Matrox still seem to be in the market, despite the specs for even their high-end cards being out in the open.
If a company did come out and try this space, I suspect that they would be considered competitors to Matrox, not competitors to ATI and NVIDIA. After all, ATI can't even write a driver that doesn't crash X.
Maybe develop it in a different country. That way, you step on jack shit. :-)
Games at the moment seem to pick one of two methods. They pick UDP, with their own reliability layer whacked on top (see: any ID software title), or they pick TCP, and suffer lag spikes (see: Ragnarok Online.)
Would this new protocol provide a way to implement reliable datagrams in a fashion that game protocol designers won't have to keep reinventing the wheel? I'm sick of all this iteration being repeated, again and again, ad infinitum. :-/
No. Half VGA (320x480) is actually half the pixel count of VGA (640x480). Perhaps you are thinking of Quarter VGA (320x240).
...you'd really want more than four if you were going to make a half-decent beowulf cluster of these things.
That would be awesome. You could have 64-bit Tiger [Java] on top of 64-bit Tiger [OS X]. Tiger sex all the way!
I wouldn't be so sure. Half a year ago, people thought that the A768 would never even make it to the US.
I wouldn't worry though. UK should be trialling the A780 by now, which is a much better instrument and actually does have a megapixel camera, unlike this dinosaur they're reviewing.
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*shrug* Guess what feature the 3G providers market? Hint: not email.
Erm... ages? The A768 has been out for ages. And perhaps you also missed its predecessor, the A760?
The funny thing is, the A768 is hardly a "new" phone by any measure. I doubt putting an "i" on the end really did anything for it either.
But oddly enough, Motorola do have an A780 which is due for release this year allegedly... or is the A780 already out? And that is still a GSM phone.
As for why... I assume it's just because not everyone wants to get sucked in by video calls. Having seen how "smooth" (intense sarcasm there) video chats are on a 3G network first-hand, I would happily say that I won't be buying a 3G phone until they fix their act.
I liked the somewhat wavy thing on the UX-50, that was sweet. Now that both Sony and Sharp have pulled out, I don't see any other good miniature keyboards in our future... unless one of those mini x86 boxes has one.
True, true. In fact, in the PDA market people generally equate "memory" and "storage" to be the same thing, so they're probably just following suit. But yeah, the actual heap available to processes on these things is rarely impressive, when it could have an entire 64MB of usable RAM so easily, along with the 64MB for OS files and another 128MB for user files. :-)
But then, the way Sharp removed both Bluetooth and Wifi from their latest model is less than impressive, too. :-/
Problems like this would ordinarily be solved using some form of sandboxing on Unix systems. Does this sort of mechanism exist for Windows? If so, all such applications could be run in their own sandbox, and prevented from evil tampering with the rest of the system.
Even if Sony were still in, it would effectively still be Palm owning the market. PalmSource, afterall, still get money off every Clie sale. :-)
I dunno. 128MB (SL-C750) is a lot of memory, man. That's twice as much as my T3 has, even if it's still half what a T5 has.
And we're talking about a device which can take cards, right? Buy a gig card. Even if you slotted in a gig card, you still have one slot free for your wireless.
I hope that someone will make a PDA/Smartphone in the same format as the Clie. That is: a Clie UX50 with build in GSM/CDMA capability. Bluetooth headset, of course. That'd be cool -- I could dump my cellphone.
What would be equally cool would be an SD card to provide that GSM capability on all Palm OS units. I probably wouldn't mind ditching my recently-purchased phone, if the PDA were capable of running a GSM modem 24/7 and not going flat too fast.
Interestingly, I have heard of people getting certain GSM cards to work with Zaurus for providing voice calls. But I never ended up getting to try for myself. :-/
That depends. How well are those American handhelds selling in Japan? I thought that Sharp and Sony had a stranglehold on the market over there. You could consider that to be US 0, Japan 1... but it depends where you sit.
Assuming the Zaurus continues to be based on Trolltech's Qtopia, the process of converting a Zaurus to English should still be just as easy as changing a few configuration files. :-)
As for an OSX handheld, "I heartily endorse this event or product!"