Re: [Openvortex-dev] some info about 2nd try (fwd)

[Seg]

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:21, Manuel Jander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hahaha, of course your computer did crash. You are using the WRONG
> driver. The vortex2 driver is absolutely unstable. Its like a nuclear
> bomb ;). It will just blow up your computer.
> The only usefulness of that driver was to undertstand the Vortex chip
> internals and to do experimentation. While its very unstable, it was a
> great work (of Jeff Muizelaar) at its time, and the trigger to join this
> project.
> 
> Use the ALSA driver.

Further proof that at the very least all the known buggy data corrupting
drivers need a WARNING-OLD-BUGGY-AND-EXPERIMENTAL-USE-THE-ALSA-DRIVER
file committed to them. Or just nuke them entirely from CVS unless
someone has good reason to keep them around.

At any rate, in the CVS itself, and on the rest of the project site, its
really NOT clear or mentioned at all for any newbies as to what is what
in CVS. Needs to be made clear that everyone should be using ALSA at
this point, or failing that the very least the known mostly-stable 'tui'
driver.