[sldev] branches/shadow-draft missing llrender.cpp

Carsten Juttner carjay at gmx.net
Wed May 28 11:29:19 PDT 2008


Matthew Dowd wrote:
> So your target audience is those that are technically savvy enough to 
> be able to check the power and cooling requirements of a new graphics 
> card, dismantle their PC, remove a graphics card, safely insert a new 
> one, reassemble the machine, sort out the inevitable driver clash as 
> the machine tries to load the driver for the previous graphics card etc.

Matthew, even though I share your opinion that the original posting was 
not quite diplomatic, I think you're a bit out of line here. I know some 
"technically challenged" people who managed to replace computer hardware 
with no problems.

I also second the argument that business people usually don't have the 
required high end hardware to get the utmost experience but at least 
they can still run it.

The point was that you do not have to spend hundreds of real $$$ to get 
a vast improvement.

Actually I see a chance for the open source community here to be able to 
contribute something by testing SL on various hardware setups and trying 
to pinpoint problems.

PS: really just nitpicking but a PNP-kernel driver is never loaded if 
the card which belongs to it is no longer present in the system. 
Granted, if you don't uninstall the user space applications that came 
with the driver there's a chance some junk remains which might give you 
trouble but it can't be LLs fault if the vendors of graphics cards have 
buggy driver installers that mess up the system if the hardware is no 
longer present.


Carsten



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