From: James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:20:17 -0400 (EDT)

Re: RIVA chip support.

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, James A Simmons wrote:
> 
> > Yes I have asked for docs for the RIVA chipset from nriva. This chip is
> > very popular in gateways. So hopefully they will be fully supported of
> > your work. Also Diamond has just recently decided to use this chip instead
> > of the S3 chipset for some of its cards. Another plus for us. On the down
> > side I will be busy with the TGA kgicon driver and ATI Mach64 (once I have
> > the driver docs) so support will be delayed for awhile on this chipset.
> > Another plus is there is no XFree86 server support. If I can get RIVA to help 
> > us then what a plus.
> 
> James:
> 
> Despite the not-so-optimistic view others have had about actually getting
> your hands on the RIVA docs, have you gotten them or heard from NVidia at
> all?

No they blew me off. 

> 
> I have to get my own computer...  Ugh..  I would just LOVE to see kgi-con
> running.  Fudging with the one at work is fun, but I can't exactly just go
> buy a supported card and plop it in.
>