Via K8M890 / S3G DeltaChrome driver

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/31/06, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:00:36PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 10/31/06, Matías Adrián <matiasasb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Hello, everybody.
> > >First, I must say that my mother tongue is spanish, then please, try
> > >to understand. : )
> > >Simple question: Is there any driver developement on the Via K8M890
> > >chipset, which has a DeltaChrome IGP?
> > >There is a driver in www.viaarena.com but I don?t trust on this.
> > >I hope my english is not so bad.
> > >Thank you.
> >
> > As far as I know VIA has not released any X drivers for the
> > non-unichrome based cards (IGP or discrete).  I don't know how similar
> > the deltachrome IGP and discrete cards are.  If the chrome IGP cards
> > are based on the unichrome design, they may be supported/supportable
> > in the via/unichrome driver.  If they are more like the discrete
> > deltachrome chips, VIA has not released an X driver for them yet, so
> > you are probably out of luck.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> X driver wise, this is just a unichrome.
>
> 3D, no free info, MPEG, no free info. Otherwise, sample code available.

They must have just mated the deltachrome 3D engine to the unichrome.
Have they released anything for the discrete chips yet?

Alex

>
> Luc Verhaegen.
>