First Open Graphics board appears
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| This project is on the basis that a GPU should not end up with
| tons of propriatary software or hardware, containing hidden
| problems that aren't mentioned to the press, and yet cause
| nervous breakdowns for developers worldwide.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36761
Related:
Interview: Timothy Miller, Open Graphics Project
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| The OGP grew rapidly after I first started it, and it's continued to
| grow gradually since then. Now, we have Traversal Technology and also
| the Open Hardware Foundation that's dedicated to the non-profit,
| community, and democratic aspects of the project. Our mailing list has
| over 500 members, including well-known Linux kernel hackers, 3D graphics
| experts, college professors, representatives of many other open
| source projects, hardware designers, and people who want to become
| hardware designers.
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http://linuxgazette.net/130/ruecker.html
XGI Technology Drivers Revisited
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| It has been one year to the day since XGI Technology had last released
| a Volari Linux display driver and about 14 months since we had
| first delivered word of XGI considering open-source 3D display drivers.
| Where do things now stand for XGI Technology? We will tell you all
| of the details today where things are for this Taiwan graphics company.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=619&num=1
Nouveau: A First Look
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| So when will the Nouveau driver be ready? The Wiki states that the
| project should be mostly usable in autumn 2007. Keith Packard had
| previously expressed hope that the driver would be ready in time
| for the X.Org 7.3 release.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=614&num=1
...pledge at least $10 USD towards the development of the open source nouveau
driver for the nvidia card series...
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| For the longest time nvidia have failed to provide specifications
| for their hardware or a working free accelerated 3d driver for
| inclusion with X.org. Thus leaving the many users of their
| videocards on popular UN*X systems such as Linux with only the
| option of using a 2d only driver or using nvidia' notorious
| proprietary driver.
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| With the advent of technological improvements to the underlying
| system to allow desktop effects this leaves a great number of users
| out in the cold. A project does exists to reverse engineer a driver
| for the existing nvidia cards, however this is a hard task which
| will require many man hours to complete. Thus the aim to present
| the Nouveau team with this no strings attached donation of at least
| $10.000 USD to further their nobel effort in developing this driver.
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http://www.pledgebank.com/nouveaudriver
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