Re: Cyberpro 20x0 driver?
At at previous job I was responsible for XFree86 Cyberpro drivers. Tvia (www.tvia.com) had supplied us with source code for their XFree86 4.x Cyberpro driver that worked reasonably well. I did have to make a few fixes and we did add some enhancements. The point of this is that Tvia does develop and maintain XFree86 drivers for their Cyberpro series. Why these are not available at least as binary downloads from their web site eludes me. Tvia does try to earn extra income from selling their SDK's. As of a year ago when I working on this the SDK's did not include the XFree86 driver sources, we had to obtain that separately. I suspect the reason Tvia has not open sourced their driver is a function of their wanting to derive income from the sale of their SDK's. My personal opion of their SDK's and their doc was it was not worth the price they were asking. However, having said that, I did find it essential to have the SDK's in order to work on the driver because the SDK's provided example code to perform certain functions which at the time were not part of the driver. I think Tvia suffers the same type of myopia that many small vendors suffer from. They would generate more income via increased hardware sales by opening up their source pool then the amount of income they generate by selling their marginal SDK's to a handful of partners. Maybe it would be worthwhile for someone to press them on this issue. John ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Cyberpro 20x0 driver?
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Andrew E. Mileski wrote: [..] You can still get the original code from CVS if you go back far enough. It was from the DEC DNARD project for BSD, so you can still get it from: http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/iag/info/source-download.html [..] You can't get the docs for the chips, unless you have a corporate account. The SDK's cost about $25k for the complete set. Some of the docs are on the net (not the SDK's) if you search hard enough (like look in my bookmarks), but it is only a register description and I'm unsure of it's legal status. Hmm, are you talking about this pdf: 434886 Sep 15 1997 2010Spgf.PDF which was possible to get it from above url. Bernd ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
