Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10
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Originally posted by cybertraveler
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https://www.catalog.update.microsoft...3-efcbef77ca68
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft...e-9f28f3f02dea
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft...3-48979525c9e4
On the other hand, Chrome 600 series is not supported by open source drivers at all, and OpenChrome for Chrome9 supports only basic 2D mode, without 3D acceleration. What's worse, MPEG4 decoding and dual head (multi-monitor support) are not implemented.
Open source is so awesome!
And if you think that this is because of a lack of documentation, you are simply wrong. It was released many years ago.
https://www.x.org/docs/via/OGPM_Chro...tI_Core_2D.pdf
https://www.x.org/docs/via/OGPM_Chro...I_3D_Video.pdf
See also:
Freedreno vs proprietary drivers
Lima vs proprietary drivers
I'm not saying that open source model is completely useless, but without vendor involvement, the results are always terrible, at least when it comes to complex hardware, like GPUs.
I have huge respect for Kevin Brace, but the truth is that just one hobbyist developer is not enough to develop such a driver. He hardly manages to adapt the code to modern Linux (kernel and X.Org), but that's all. There was no 3D acceleration for Chrome9 a decade ago, and today it still does not exist.
Of course, this driver (xf86-video-s3) is mainly about ViRGE and Savage GPUs, and as you can guess, they are almost unusable on the modern desktop. It is kind of equivalent of Intel740 (i740), when it comes to Intel chips, so it is really ancient hardware.
For the Unichrome-Chrome9 GPUs there is another driver - xf86-video-openchrome.
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