Philips webcam

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Mon Jan 7 00:15:03 UTC 2008


Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Can you explain what about Compiz is not eye candy to you?  I'm just
>> trying to understand.  I've flip-flopped a few times before I settled on
>> the open source ati driver - purely because it lets me hibernate.  I
>> don't need GoogleEarth on that machine so that was not an issue to me.
> 
> Zoom and Negative. I use those features extensively with my hurting eyes.

right - accessibility.

/me smacks forehead

>> If it is that annoying what's stopping you from buying a cheapo Nvidia card?
> 
> This is a Dell laptop from America. Even if I could get the card here,
> it would be rediculously expensive. If it were up to 100$USD, the I
> would of course support Intel or Nvidia.

i hear that.  a replacement video card for my almost four year old 
alienware laptop was $350 when i last looked.

>> Anyways the problem is not that Gusty doesn't support your hardware, it
>> is that AMD/ATI is unable to ship a working driver for their hardware.
> 
> And AMD has heard it from me.

good man.

-d




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