From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:14:28 -0500 (EST)

Re: Statement: Graphics Support for Intel 810

No. I believe thats a binary only driver. The reason for PI existance is
to help comapnies develope drivers but yet keep them closed sourced.

"Testing?  What testing?  If it compiles it's great, if it boots it's
perfect."

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Waite wrote:

> 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> =
>