From: Jarno Paananen <jpaana@s2.org>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: 19 Nov 1999 02:21:25 +0200

Re: Statement: Graphics Support for Intel 810

Justin Cormack <jpc1@doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:

| 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

No, that is XBF (XFree Binary Free), XFCom does mean XFree
Compliant. Check the terms from
http://www.precisioninsight.com/products.html for example. The
i810 driver is already included in the XFree CVS tree (I'm a
XFree developer and am using server compiled from the CVS on an
i810) and will be included in 3.3.6.

// Jarno

| > 
| > 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> =
| > 
| >