From: Johan Karlberg <wlfshmn@failure.aroundit.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:04:22 +0100 (CET)

Re: STB and S3 tech specs

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jos Hulzink wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> 
> > > > In the mean time, what is the current top choice for linux friendly
> > > > 3D accelerated cards that we DO have specs for?
> > > 
> > > I know you can get the full specs for Matrox cards. Any others?
> > 
> Matrox Milennium 1 + 2, This driver is supposed to work rather well
>   already.
> S3, All cards, though VLB and ISA cards are hard to program for fbcon.
>   ViRGE driver works fine on some cards, won't run on others. Other
>   drivers are outdated.
> Cirrus Logic, old cards are documented well. Newer cards are a problem
> Hercules, ET,Western Digital: Depends on the card.
> 
> Not documented:
> 
> * nVidia (Riva chipsets): Viper 330/550 and compatible cards. nVidia sucks
> 
> * Creative Labs (we got someone working there on binary only drivers)
> 
> * most other cool cards :(.
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Jos
> 
> 
> 
> 
Just to clarify, Creative don't make any chipsets of their own, when it
comes ot graphics cards, they are just an OEM in that field, (correct me
if I'm wrong) , so hopefully, with a little luck, the "creative" drivers
should run on most cards based on the same chipsets as the creative
version is.