XGI Releases Source
April 12th, 2005 by CrusaderTom’s Hardware is reporting that XGI has committed themselves to a source release for Linux users:
XGI also announced that it has released its source code for Linux. “To support the large and growing Linux community, XGI Technology released the source code to X.Org, XFree86.Org, and Kernel.Org for its desktop, notebook, and server products,” the company said in a statement.
The press release from XGI can be found here; included are URLs for obtaining the source code.
Edit – Wednesday Apr 13 13:51:27 2005 – As readers have pointed out, the code XGI submitted to the X11 and Linux kernel projects only covers their 2D drivers.
April 12th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
I’d certainly consider buying one if there were cheap standalone cards plentily available.
April 12th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
this sounds really interesting, is there anyone who has experience with xgi cards? are they comparable to nvidia? better, worse? (in terms of pure hardware)
i’m all excited, but i’ve no idea whether it’s justified or not
April 12th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
The source code is only for 2D HW acceleration.
April 14th, 2005 at 9:46 am
So is the VIA source code release ( see below ) the same – 2d only ?
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VIA Technologies has released driver source codes for specific VIA hardware to the open source community. The source for the S3 Graphics UniChrome family display driver for version 2.6.x kernels is said to be of particular interest to the growing number of Linux enthusiasts and customers using VIA EPIA mainboards
UniChrome family display driver supports the VIA CLE266 and the new VIA CN400 Digital Media chipsets featured on the VIA EPIA M series and VIA EPIA SP series mainboards
VIA also released display driver sources for the VIA ProSavage and ProSavage DDR integrated graphics controllers as well as the integrated Network driver source