On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:48:48 +0100 (CET), Pierre Follet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just came accross your site and found interesting the > topic on creating open source drivers for graphics cards. > > You mention about ATI, nVidia nor Matrox fitting the > requirements, but what about XGI?
We thought about them. They even already have open source drivers. The idea was to put out a card with their chip as a starter, which we could use to fund later cards of our own (and theirs). I don't remember what the problem was, though. I think we were not able to get someone there to talk to us about it. > > Though they're not as big as ATI or NV, they have new > graphics cards which support the latest graphics features > such as Shader Model 2.0, and best of all, they already > have Linux Redhat and XFree86 drivers. > I heard they already have 2D open source drivers, and > their OpenGL drivers is based on MESA and DRI - in other > words, it already seems to fit the requirements. > > Best Regards, > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
