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SubjectRe: Hardware supported by the kernel
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On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 15:56, DervishD wrote:
> * Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> dixit:
> > > who did I miss ?
> > Trident - documentation is public, nobody has tackled a driver
>
> Trident cards are still sold? Here in Spain is difficult to get
> one (except a second-hand maybe).

Trident appears in the EPIA (but not EPIA-M) onboard video for one. So
its still around as an embedded item.

> > Intel - older stuff is slow, newer onboard video is actually pretty good
> > and Intel support this stuff seriously. Its not a radeon but it players
> > cube perfectly well 8) Presumably intel will eventually fuse the CPU and
> > graphics into one chip.
>
> I tested the 810 a time ago. It was not slow (2D at least, didn't
> check 3D), but it was buggy (even in Windows, so Linux drivers
> weren't blame of this).

With XFree 4.3 810 seems pretty solid 2D/3D nowdays, and the later stuff
830/845/... is also a fair bit faster.

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