On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:48:48 +0100 (CET), Pierre Follet
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> 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
> 
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