From: David Waite <mass@ufl.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 23:16:32 -0400

RE: RIVA chip support.

Good luck- NVidia is very stingy about any documentation. AFAIK Canopus (one
of the major sellers of Riva 128 boards, I've got one in my machine here at
work for OGL work) can't even get information on the 3d part of the chipset.

Their stinginess in documentation is the only reason I do not have one of
these cards in my home machine. If they actually do release docs, I'll be
running out to get one ;)

-David Waite

> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, James A Simmons wrote:
>
> > Yes I have asked for docs for the RIVA chipset from nriva.
> This chip is
> > very popular in gateways. So hopefully they will be fully
> supported of
> > your work. Also Diamond has just recently decided to use
> this chip instead
> > of the S3 chipset for some of its cards. Another plus for
> us. On the down
> > side I will be busy with the TGA kgicon driver and ATI
> Mach64 (once I have
> > the driver docs) so support will be delayed for awhile on
> this chipset.
> > Another plus is there is no XFree86 server support. If I
> can get RIVA to help
> > us then what a plus.