intel chipset support

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/1/06, Donald Harter <harterc1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have been planning to upgrade my motherboard and looking at boards
> using the below chipset.
> http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/index.htm
>
> It seems that Intel has provided drivers which are not proprietary yet
> they are not included in the latest X.org distributions.   There are
> comments on the intel site saying that these are provided for developers
> to include in their distributions.  So why isn't it included in the i810
> driver?
>

The drivers on intel's web site are just snapshots of the drivers that
are already in Xorg cvs.

Alex

>
> It seems that the persons who settled the microsoft antitrust case really goofed.
> They should have required that any "propretery" documents provided to microsoft employees to enable them to write device drivers, shoud be made available to linux device driver writers also.
>
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