S3 Graphics Fails At Delivering Linux Driver 132
Ashmash writes "Phoronix is running a story about S3 Graphics failing to provide Linux support for their Chrome 500 products even though they have announced in press releases going back months that there is Linux support. S3 Graphics has gone as far as advertising OpenGL 3.0 support for Linux and one of their representatives had promised a driver by last December. This situation has been going on for months, but there is no Linux driver at all for the Chrome 500 series."
Re:S3 is still around? (Score:5, Funny)
Let's raise this barn! (Score:5, Funny)
I think this simply calls for a really long, over-promising and under-delivering open source driver project in the tradition of Nouveau or anything in DRI produced without commercial support. I look forward to a series of unstable and unusable "releases" which may someday, years from now, result in a shoddy but roughly functional driver.
Maybe some *prominent* linux developers should take some time out of their respective minor IT and sysadmin jobs to create and fully support their very first OpenGL 3.0 driver for this moderately unpopular architecture.
It'll be like a Little Rascals movie, but with more facial hair.
Re:S3 is still around? (Score:5, Funny)
Personally, S3's biggest recognition in my life was playing Heavy Gear 2 at a LAN. Some putz was putting mortars on us from way the Hell at the far end of the map with impunity. After allegations of cheating and threats of beating, we all found out his Savage4 didn't support prerry much any way of rendering distance fog. He had an infinite viewline.
After further allegations of cheating and rigging, we found out that not only did he not intentionally arrange a corner case to get this screwup, there were no drivers from S3 that could fix it, and S3 had stopped making drivers for his card.
Download,com (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, the comments at the end of that article are priceless. Makes this place look like a debating society.
Re:S3 is still around? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:S3 is still around? (Score:5, Funny)
I was cursed with a Savage4 after having a Voodoo 3 for ages... it quickly became known in our household as the Savage Whore, for the sheer number of times it got fucked one way or another.
The drivers were absymal, the hardware regularly locked up and it got replaced real fast.
Re:S3 is still around? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:S3 is still around? (Score:3, Funny)
Some putz was putting mortars on us from way the Hell at the far end of the map with impunity.
Had that happen to me in Lebanon for a few days. Now I know how they did it!