Thomas Steffen wrote: > Hi Xavier > > Yes, that is quite an improvement. Admittedly the driver situation for > the VIA cards is a bit complex, which can be quite confusing. > > Personally I would restructure the page about different drivers > http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/About so that it focuses on two > drivers: the closed source drivers from VIA, and the openchrome > driver. Those are the two that matter, and everything else can be > treated as a footnote. I'm not sure I agree on which are the most important drivers, but anyway the point of this page is to draw a general but yet complete picture. This is only a few lines for each of the drivers. The remaining of the doc is about OpenChrome, that's plenty of space for the driver that is of most interest to us.
> BTW, I was never able to find the "open source" > via driver. And when I follow the link from the wiki, I end up on a > Chinese page with all weird characters (404?). > Typo fixed, thanks. > Oh, and talking from the user perspective, the vesa driver should also > be listed as an option. > The vesa driver is not dedicated at driving unichrome based hardware, but I take the point. > I would also like to see some information on AMD64. With typical > systems coming with 4 GB of RAM, the move to AMD64 is about to happen. > As far as I understand, the VIA driver does not support AMD64, while > all open source drivers work reasonably well. > By AMD64, you mean any the x86_64 architecture, right ? This should be properly supported in OpenChrome (no idea about any of the other drivers). What is not properly supported yet is 32 bits userspace over a 64 bits kernel, but it's not a very usual configuration. Regards, Xavier PS: I'm stripping out openchrome-devel from the distribution list, I should have set the reply-to: in the first place... > Regards, > Thomas > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Xavier Bachelot <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The old wiki was not in a very good shape and a also a bit slow, to say >> the less, so I tried to make it better. The new entry point for the >> documentation is now there : http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC >> The old documentation is still temporarily available at the old place >> for reference : http://wiki.openchrome.org >> Hopefully, I didn't loose anything in the move, but now is a good time >> to double check ;-) >> I've also modified the homepage to reflect the change. >> >> Comments welcome. >> >> Regards, >> Xavier >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openchrome-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-devel >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > openchrome-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users > Main page: > http://www.openchrome.org > Wiki: > http://wiki.openchrome.org > User Forum: > http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1 > _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
