[coreboot] Video card bios project

[dove - railing]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/6/19 dove - railing <doverailing at gmail.com>:
> > I have phoned Australia and spoke to an expert in Procon.com.au about 2
> > times and corresponded via email.  Procon.com.au are wanting several
> hundred
> > dollars whether it's  my font or theirs.  This is not affordable.  I
> don't
> > know why vga bios is proprietary still and there is not any opensource
> > alternatives.  Thus if some opensource enthusiast does it that would be
> > great.  Coreboot project are doing main bios.  Similarly if it's done for
> > video card bios that would be tremendous.
>
> There's the Open Graphics Project:
> http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project
> http://lists.duskglow.com/open-graphics/2010-September/012160.html
>
>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.opengraphics/9324

It (developer production graphics board?) costs US$750 excluding shipping.
 This is too expensive.




Regards



Meeku
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