Do you think I could still get savage mx/ix docs? perhaps if the old stuff is orphaned, they will lift the NDAs on the docs? not likey I suspect. I really want to finish duoview support. At this point I think I might be better off just onloading my savage laptop and getting a laptop with an ati or some more easily contacted chip vendor...
Alex --- Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:38:35 -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > >I don't have any terribly recent info, but s3graphics was still > under > >the Via umbrella last time I checked. They had docs available as > long > >as you were willing to sign an NDA. The NDA allows source code > release, > >so is compatible with XFree86 development. > > S3 Graphics is still a subsidiary of VIA. > > Note, however, that VIA seems to have moved beyond the Savages. > Their latest > motherboards come with a brand-new graphics architecture they call > "Castle > Rock". Thus, I strongly suspect the Savages are now orphans. > > >> --- Alexander Stohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Hmm, SonicBlue (aka known as S3) has claimed > >> > bankrupcy (Chapter 11) recently, so its a changing > >> > situation with S3TC compression right now - > > It is likely that the compression technology went with the graphics > group to > VIA, and not to SonicBlue. > > >> > who will ever buy that patent and charge the world > >> > for the next 70 years? > > A U.S. Patent is only good for 17 or 21 years, not 70 years. > > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
