| From | Kevin Puetz <> | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:40:09 -0500 |
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Rene Herman wrote:
> I'd actually prefer AMD, but the AMD market isn't offfering a solution > comparable to Intel's integrated video. That means AMD and VIA and the > like are loosing (some, mine at least :-) money since they don't have a > graphics solution comparable to Intel, in terms of openness and > basicness. I believe really only nForce and (to a degree; I hardly see > it) ATI IGP are available in the AMD motherboard market. If you could > produce something as good or better as Intel's, you might want to go > talk to VIA, or AMD directly, and have them license it from you and > massproduce it into their chipsets.
Well, there are the via k8m800 chipsets. That's (I believe?) a unichrome2 IGP, which should have opensource DRI support via unichrome.sf.net (caveat - I have a unichrome1 in an epia M1000, not the athlon64 variant). It's no hot-rod performer, but it's good enough for tuxracer and neverball. I have no idea how it really compares performance-wise to the intel stuff, but it does at least have open drivers and reasonable GL acceleration.
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