[nylug-talk] Video Cards....

[jh]

Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> It's a shame, isn't it?
> 
> Then there are Ageia, SiS, and XGI.  
> 
> I think contacting XGI is a worthwhile effort, I'm going to test that route... 
> I'll post up what I find out.
> 
> -Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin

You're leaving out VIA/S3.

It looks like S3 is the only company still trying to be an alternative 
to the Big Two. Moreover, they're (AFAIK) the only video chip company 
that has made anything like a recent stab at providing open drivers.

The last thing that I could find was this:

http://tinyurl.com/y7locf

The tarball appears to only have source, no blobs, but I only took a 
cursory look. It is only for their integrated stuff, not for the newer 
stuff on the s3graphics.com site.

It appears to me that VIA tried to do _something_ for OSS, and that the 
market didn't bite, preferring the closed drivers of the bigger guys. 
Kind of hard to bitch and moan if that is in fact the case.

I know that VIA has made different attempts to capture our market, but 
has had only limited success. A shame, as their other stuff is _great_ 
under Linux - core chipsets, ethernet. The encryption stuff in their 
CPUs is totally supported by OpenBSD. I know I'd switch entirely over to 
their video stuff if it was an option.

jh