Impending X driver deprecation

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 10.01.2008 03:36, Warren Togami wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:16:03 -0500
>> Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please reconsider s3?
>>>
>>> It is used by several of the thin client models selling today, and 
>>> Intel's "Affordable PC" reference platform that is being sold in
>>> large numbers in the developing world (e.g. China) by companies like
>>> Dell.

Are you sure it's s3? It's IIRC a SiS-Chipset. See

http://www.sis.com/pressroom/pressrelease_000287.htm
[...]
Another best-value PC solution presented at IDF is Dell’s Affordable PC
(APC) EC280, which is developed by SiS and Dell for the emerging market.
The Dell EC280 adopts the SiSM661GX chipset to support Intel FSB533MHz
CPU and DDR 333 memory.
[...]

SiSM661GX is driven by xorg-x11-drv-sis

> (*WHY* does Intel's APC have such a crappy non-Intel video card?)

That's a interesting question :))

CU
knurd