On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:02:33 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 13:50 -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Passing the info on to the DRI project folks got no > > response at all; further queries revealed that the DRI project's > > Matrox experts effectively aren't involved in the DRI project > > anymore, so now no open source developers are working on the Matrox > > drivers. A little bit of time spent in the XF86/X.org/DRI bug > > tracking systems will show similar Matrox bugs that don't get any > > responses from the developers. > > > > According to the DRI folks, the issue here is that 3D drivers are > _hard_, and there are just not enough open source developers who have > the skills to fix these kinds of things. For example there are 3 or 4 > 3D chipsets for which we have docs but no driver. > > So it's not quite as simple as "release some docs and the community will > write a driver". > Clearly I know not of what I speak of here, but is there any possibility of an ndiswrapper sort of program here? Would it be possible somehow to wrap Windows audio hardware drivers in an alsawrapper program so that I could run Windows 1394 drivers under Alsa? - Mark
