On 6/13/05, Benjamin Vander Jagt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you're right (and it's a pleasure to meet you, by the way), but the > SiS licenses are, as far as I've read them, now "protected" under two > entities instead of just one, so it may be another nVidia case; a company > that *wants* to open up but can't. >
you might want to talk to XGI, they released a driver for the new xgi cards based on Thomas' sis DDX. They also have a 3d driver, but I think it's binary only. AFAIK, it only supports the new XGI cards and not the older SiS based ones. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2761 Alex > Would you like to contact him, or should I? > > (I'm hoping that KMail's reply format is compatible with mailman. If it's > not, then I'm sorry for the mess. Is there any chance that mailman could be > replaced / complemented with phpBB2 or something of the sort?) > > On Monday 13 June 2005 09:11, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > As I understand it SiS no longer own the graphics parts anyway but they > > were > > merged with trident and dumped off somewhere. > > > > It is possible to get somewhere with .tw vendors, but it does take time, > > persistence and patience to find the right people. At least we've been > > successful to a reasonable extent with vendors like VIA and ALi. > > > > You might want to contact Richard Stallman as he was talking with > > several .tw vendors recently and may have contacts he can share or > > insight into the situation with SiS. > > > > Alan > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you > > shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office > > luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. > > Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput > a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? > If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. > Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
