Re: mozilla+XFree86+Linux-2.1.x => HARD LOCKUP (addition)

Rafael Reilova (rreilova@ececs.uc.edu)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:16:42 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > Who knows. VIA don't answer emails.
> >
> > This sounds like boycott time :)
> >
> > If we setup some boycott action (via slashdot or a similar
> > forum) VIA might come to their senses...

Not necessarily boycott. Just get the bug exposed in such a forum. This
has to affect Windoze too, but people probably assume it's part of the
daily dose of OS crashes. BTW, the VIA comes with Win drivers, but who
has the time to reverse engineer them.

[...]
> On top of that except for these ISA DMA bugs in the older chips the VIA
> chipsets seem to be very good

It's not just because they're good, they're dirt cheap too ;-)

Cheers,

Rafael

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