From: Justin Cormack <jpc1@doc.ic.ac.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:04:32 +0000 (GMT)

Re: Statement: Graphics Support for Intel 810

No.


Redhat XFCom has always been for binary only drivers.

Last thing I saw there was neomagic drivers a long time back.

RH sign NDAs for these

justin




> 
> 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> =
> 
>