Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Nov 2008 13:14 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
3D News, GL, DirectX Earlier this year VIA announced they wanted to join the open-source bandwagon by establishing an open-source driver development initiative, releasing documentation and source-code, and to better engage with the Linux community at large. They have made a few small steps over the past few months, but today they have made their largest open-source contribution yet by releasing four programming documentation guides that cover the video, 2D, and 3D programming for their Chrome 9 graphics processor. In addition, they are now partnering with the community-spawned OpenChrome developers.
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Put your money where your mouth is
by Adurbe on Thu 20th Nov 2008 13:26 UTC
Adurbe
Member since:
2005-07-06

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...

Redeeman Member since:
2006-03-23

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

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Adurbe Member since:
2005-07-06

I didnt realise that AMD had actually released anything...

Where can I get the 3d enabled driver from?

edit:typo

Edited 2008-11-20 16:50 UTC

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