http://www.osnews.com/story/20563/VIA_Publishes_2D_3D_Documentation_Partners_with_OpenChrome Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:49:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?337863 http://osnews.com/thread?337863 If you want other companies to follow suit with VIA's example such as AMD and NVIDA then we will need to put our money where our mouth is and buy this chip

Until AMD/NV and other companies see profit in this kind of action they will not follow suit... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337870 http://osnews.com/thread?337870 ofcourse AMD is already doing it.....

i wouldnt trust this from via just yet, they gotta show that they actually are doing it, before ill buy their shit Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Redeeman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337876 http://osnews.com/thread?337876 I had a Chrome9 chipset before my last motherboard upgrade. This not being the first time VIA has made noises about opening up, the OpenChrome devs were quite skeptical this round. However, it looks like we may be seeing the beginnings of an open dialog. Though it looks like VIA's internal documentation situation is, shall we say, less than optimal. This should be interesting to watch:

http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-devel/2008-November... Edited 2008-11-20 14:37 UTC Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337887 http://osnews.com/thread?337887 I didnt realise that AMD had actually released anything...

Where can I get the 3d enabled driver from?

edit:typoEdited 2008-11-20 16:50 UTC Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337893 http://osnews.com/thread?337893 Based on this, I think VIA is really trying to become open.

Committed over 16,000 lines of code to kernel
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Nw Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (decriptor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337903 http://osnews.com/thread?337903 They released specs and have been workin with Novell to get opensource drivers out to users. You want to give you a reach around as well? For years everyone complains about lack of specs and AMD delivers and now people complain that AMD didn't opensource their propietary drivers. The specs should be moe than enough, imo. Its more than Nvidia has done. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (apoclypse) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337906 http://osnews.com/thread?337906 SIS is the next. hopefully these yummy mobos iDotPC-1 in LinITX will be 3D accelerated under Linux/BSD/Solaris....Edited 2008-11-20 18:52 UTC Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337938 http://osnews.com/thread?337938 Then do some research before you dare spread FUD..

Intel, AMD and now VIA have all released either docs or drivers... Nvidia is the only one holding out.

AMD:
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
http://www.radeonhd.org/
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#op...

Intel stuff:
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/

Via stuff:
http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action
http://www.x.org/docs/via/
http://www.openchrome.org/

You fail at life Adurbe.. just like Adobe fails at business.Edited 2008-11-21 01:00 UTC Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?337977 http://osnews.com/thread?337977 You fail at life Adurbe.. just like Adobe fails at business.

I'll happily continue to 'fail' like a multi billion dollar company :-)

Indeed, if I manage to even get close to that level of 'failure' I'll be happy!

FYI incase there was any misunderstanding, Adurbe isnt a derivitive of adobe its the latin Ad Urbe Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments