I wonder how the new company will be with respect to giving out datasheets? like sis or like trident?
Alex --- Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ Dill wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:03, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > >>Is anyone on either of these lists familiar with XGI? It seems to > be a > >>new GPU manufacturer consisting of a merger of Trident and the SiS > >>graphics division. > >> > >>here's their website: > >>http://www.xgitech.com/index.htm > >> > >>They have some interesting products products (dual GPU solution). > Some > >>of their other stuff looks similar to existing SiS and trident > >>products. They mention linux support, but I see no links to > drivers > >>anywhere. does anyone know anymore about this company? Are they > >>writing xfree drivers or with any existing drivers work with these > >>chips? SiS has has a bad record of giving out specs on it's newer > >>chips; trident I guess has been a little bit better. > > I guess this company will do it like SiS did in the past: Make the > chips, but leave the integration into boards to other manufacturers. > (The "embedded-and-customized"-hell will never end...) > > My bet would be that ECS and MSI will be among the first to design > boards for these chips. > > > SiS spins off their 3D buisness and it gets named Xabre > > Trident buys/merges, whatever with Xabre, and the new company is > named > > XGI > > I think they it became official on the 13 or 14th, don't remember. > So > > for now, its just the Xabre products and the trident products > > (cyberblade2, etc). > > The "Volari"'s specs look indeed like the Xabre's, except for that > "Cipher" video processor and the dual-GPU option. Apart from this > (and > 3D, of course), these chips should be well supported by the current > SiS > driver (well, as soon as I get the PCI IDs) > > Thomas > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
