Trident Micro Changes Policy Toward XFree86

Alex writes: "According to Egbert on the Xpert Xfree86 mailing list, Trident Microsystems, who makes video chipsets for low end PC's and notebooks, has changed its policy towards open source developers. Get the details here." If you want to email Trident Micro Public Relations, please be polite! Flaming will only hurt the chances that Trident will reverse this decision.

Comments

Re:Code monkeys

[ZxCv]

It's not so much the chip won't be supported at all-- the standard Trident driver should still work. What they're referring to more is the proprietary acceleration features built into the chip. Those types of added features and benefits (which are actually probably required for any decent output from the card) are what will be missing.

confusion over trident

[johnjones]

there has always been a bit of confusion over trident drivers

e.g. the CYBER9385 this had at one stage 3 drivers distributed in a major release this is because they named chips the same

Trident supplies low cost chips because they are small (as in die size) and thus makes them less power hungry which is essential in laptops

the problem is that lately they have done into the onboard chipset market with Mother Board manufactures garbing them as a cheap way to stick video on board

then trident accelerated parts of their chips for these vendors

they have always been tight but allowed NDA people to help out writing drivers

the people you should complain to are the MB manufacturers who properly paid for the work to be done

so this begs the question who uses trident that you know ?

me I know SIS do so

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