No, I don't think the riva cards have hardware mpeg decoding capabilities. There are actually 2 operations involved: - motion compensation - inverse discrete cosine transform
Only ATI cards feature both, and the S3 Savage has motion compensation. Others cards (G200/400's, TNT1/2) only have DirectX overlay support which accelerates things a bit for windoze software decoders.
This is not a matter of technical advancement. Actually, in my country (france) the whole phone network has been digital for about 4 years. The trouble is that most european countries have had a single state-owned telco for years. Even now, the benefits of competition are only visible for companies or people who make long distance calls. Practically the whole local loop in France is owned by France Telecom, and I bet that with the Internet boom local calls are more than ever one of their cash cows, and they certainly don't want to make them free. Even if they did, there's the problem of regulation authorities, as someone already said here, who prevent a dominant telco to make too aggressive moves that could hurt competition in the long run. It seems to me that the only hope for cheap broadband and unmetered Internet access in Europe is Radio LANs. Unfortunately, most interesting frequency ranges are forbidden and reserved for military usage...
I'm no kernel guru, but I'm pretty sure that many driver APIs have changed in the late 2.1's, and the same goes for network APIs (hence the need for new net-tools for 2.2...).
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS can help between 2 relatively close kernel versions, but I doubt very much it can do anything to handle "2.0 in 2.2", that'd be emulation:)
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No, I don't think the riva cards have hardware mpeg decoding capabilities.
There are actually 2 operations involved:
- motion compensation
- inverse discrete cosine transform
Only ATI cards feature both, and the S3 Savage has motion compensation.
Others cards (G200/400's, TNT1/2) only have DirectX overlay support which accelerates things a bit for windoze software decoders.
This is not a matter of technical advancement. Actually, in my country (france) the whole phone network has been digital for about 4 years.
The trouble is that most european countries have had a single state-owned telco for years.
Even now, the benefits of competition are only visible for companies or people who make long distance calls. Practically the whole local loop in France is owned by France Telecom, and I bet that with the Internet boom local calls are more than ever one of their cash cows, and they certainly don't want to make them free.
Even if they did, there's the problem of regulation authorities, as someone already said here, who prevent a dominant telco to make too aggressive moves that could hurt competition in the long run.
It seems to me that the only hope for cheap broadband and unmetered Internet access in Europe is Radio LANs. Unfortunately, most interesting frequency ranges are forbidden and reserved for military usage...
I'm no kernel guru, but I'm pretty sure that many driver APIs have changed in the late 2.1's, and the same goes for network APIs (hence the need for new net-tools for 2.2...).
:)
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS can help between 2 relatively close kernel versions, but I doubt very much it can do anything to handle "2.0 in 2.2", that'd be emulation
oops, even "plain old text mode" doesn't like some symbols...
I said:
You don't even need to bring it down first,
ifconfig device new-ip
will do the job...
You don't even need to bring it down first,
ifconfig will do the job.