[MPlayer-users] using VESA and radeon image is purple where black should be

[dan carter]

"Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
> 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:37:27AM +1300, daniel carter wrote:
> >
> > Yeah but i expect that will be a longs ways away with their aggrements with
> > SGI and whatnot
> 
> Well, if they are in the black with their Linux development costs vs.
> income, then yes I agree.  I will admit to not having known that
> nvidia had some kind of deal with SGI.
> 

NVIDIA poached a whole bunch of SGI engineers, SGI were going to take
them to court, but then they settled on a joint venture type deal where
NVIDIA make the graphics chips for new SGI systems.  And new SGI systems
happen to run linux....