On 2/13/07, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is a downside to this. :-( When questioned, KP was very vague as to whether or not Intel would offer the GMA X3000 on a video board. If they decided to do this, this project would be dead unless we offered an X server on a board system or if we had a board with additional acceleration. It is possible to use this chip, or a lessor one that is still Vista approved, to provide the basic VGA, basic video operations, memory controller, and video output. This might be more efficient than reinventing them and we have the ability to run Vista.
The only failsafe solution for free software friendly hardware is to get a group of people that honestly want to support free software (that's us) and gain the expertise needed to become self-sustaining. Intel could decide to release a new chip and not release full documentation for it, and we'd be out of luck if we were dependent on them for hardware improvements. That being said, you can count on the fact that Intel is working on discrete hardware themselves (do a search for intel discrete graphics). On new years eve last year, someone in #ubuntu-offtopic even mentioned having seen discrete 965 cards with some devs from Canonical (whether this is a reputable source of info is up to you). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
