Tracy R Reed wrote:
I wouldn't blame the community so much for this. I'm pretty active in
the Linux world and I have never heard of this Via Unichrome chipset. I
think it needs more visibility. I googled for it and it looks like it is
a whole chipset. So you actually have to buy a specific motherboard to
get it. And it only works with an AMD cpu.
I believe that the newer Via EPIA boards all have Unichrome Pro's.
I also believe that the older EPIA boards are standard Unichrome's.
I don't know of any standalone cards. I doubt they exist as the
Unichrome graphics aren't even remotely in the same league with nVidia
or ATI in terms of performance.
However, the driver is open source. If the open source folks are
serious, they should be pushing this *hard*. If Via started taking a
bite out of Intel, nVidia and ATI because their driver development was
much faster and cheaper due to open source contributions, one of them
would finally have to cave in. Or Via would just close the performance gap.
Yes, it might take a couple of years. So be it. Open source is in this
for the long haul. In addition, if they really got serious about these
chips, Via might actually produce that standalone card.
As things stand, they can point and say "no community momentum" and be
dead-on correct.
-a
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