[Openchrome-devel] New openchrome documentation

Thomas Steffen steffen.listaccount
Mon Feb 9 14:52:12 PST 2009


Hi Xavier

Yes, that is quite an improvement. Admittedly the driver situation for
the VIA cards is a bit complex, which can be quite confusing.

Personally I would restructure the page about different drivers
http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/About so that it focuses on two
drivers: the closed source drivers from VIA, and the openchrome
driver. Those are the two that matter, and everything else can be
treated as a footnote. BTW, I was never able to find the "open source"
via driver. And when I follow the link from the wiki, I end up on a
Chinese page with all weird characters (404?).

Oh, and talking from the user perspective, the vesa driver should also
be listed as an option.

I would also like to see some information on AMD64. With typical
systems coming with 4 GB of RAM, the move to AMD64 is about to happen.
As far as I understand, the VIA driver does not support AMD64, while
all open source drivers work reasonably well.

Regards,
Thomas

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The old wiki was not in a very good shape and a also a bit slow, to say
> the less, so I tried to make it better. The new entry point for the
> documentation is now there : http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/TOC
> The old documentation is still temporarily available at the old place
> for reference : http://wiki.openchrome.org
> Hopefully, I didn't loose anything in the move, but now is a good time
> to double check ;-)
> I've also modified the homepage to reflect the change.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Xavier
>
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