From: Daan <daa...@gm...> - 2009-02-01 20:12:25
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> > Could this cause the issue I am seeing under Windows? > > ..pass, all hearsay I've seen, suggests Microsoft hurt ATI's > business for some "high up" corporate policy reason, by throwing > odd error messages etc to scare people into buying Nvidia cards. > But I've never heard of them changing any ATI card's pci id. ;o) Maybe I should be more specific. The issues I see using windows on my old ATI All in Wonder 9800 AGP card have nothing todo with the Ubuntu testrun I did. (I choose 6.06 because it is the LTS version and we use it everywhere at my job). My idea was that maybe the PCI ID was not correctly registered in the FG application and it was not only hindering a correct FG startup on Ubuntu, but could *maybe* also explain the strange rendering issues I have when running on Windows. As far as I know the Linux guys are always quite verbose with sending messages to the console. My thought was that the Windows build *might* suffer from the same 'unknown id' issue, but not report that the the console window. I do not know whether the FG executable actually has a list of hardware ID's, but this was just my thought. If I talk non-sense, please ignore.... Daan |