Impending X driver deprecation

[Warren Togami]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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

Oh crap.  You're right.  Nevermind me and my fuzzy memory.  I was 
confusing two crappy chipsets.

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

Sigh.

Warren