From: David Waite <mass@ufl.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:49:10 -0500

Re: Statement: Graphics Support for Intel 810

About the I810 - I just found this. Take a look at

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/XFCom/XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh61.i386.rpm

That means there is source floating around somewhere for X, right?
(XFCom meaning XFree license Compliant)

-David Waite

Andreas Beck wrote:
> 
> Hi Tong, hi list:
> 
> As I keep getting queries about the Intel 810 chipset, like this one:
> 
> > I have a PC with Intel 810 chipset too, and I am having trouble getting
> > it work under Linux. I saw your message to the forum at
> > <ggi-develop@eskimo.com> asking about this question.
> 
> I will give the state of Intel 810 support here, so others searching the web
> will eventually get the answer as well:
> 
> Intel will not give out technical documentation for the 810 chipset.
> Not even for a bigger customer of Intel that designed an embedded
> application for this chipset and had asked us for writing a driver for him.
> The customer solved the problem by adding a third party graphics board.
> 
> > I wonder if you have solved the problem, and if you do could you please
> > share it with me?
> 
> The problem has not been solved by the GGI/KGI community due to the
> abovementioned lack of docs.
> 
> However: I have heard, that precision insight has an X server for the Intel
> 810 chipset available. I can not tell anything about its quality or license
> or whatever, though.
> 
> CU, Andy
> 
> --
> = Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =