Hey, I just found this device on-line called a computer-on-a-stick, which is almost what it sounds like, a computer on a stick. I'd like to try it. Does anyone else have any thoughts on how it would work or does anyone own one? I saw it at www.fingergear.com (It works in the USB drive and stores info.)

Hi,
does somebody know about an OpenGL core for FPGA?

I have a TFT module and I want to use it as an additional display (here it is: http://diary.rozsnyo.com/2005/07/28/TX26D60VC1CAA.html) - so my intention is to make an intelligent module from it. My design lead to a thing very similar to OpenGL - a machine which quickly processes the instructions. The processing power on the display's side is in my case needed because of small bandwidth serial/USB connection.

hi,
how is the actual status of the development?
is there any timeline?

i think this project would be the best way of have 3D driver under AROS
( www.aros.org / www.aros-exec.org )

thanks in advance,

Jaime Dias

In October of 2004, Timothy Miller [interview] initiated discussion about the creation of a free and open source friendly graphics card [story]. Since that time, discussion has continued on the project's mailing list [archive]. In a more recent announcement, Timothy talked about the future of the Open Graphics Project. Originally funded by his employer, Tech Source, he explains, "Tech Source is now officially no longer involved in the OGP. Arrangements with Tech Source are being finalized that remove any potential IP issues," going on to add optimistically, "the upside of this is that we have more flexibility and freedom in the design."

Going forward, the project plans to focus on the creation of a prototype that will be available for purchase, "the success or failure of this project will be dependent only on how much the community wants it." Based on their current work plan, an FPGA-based project board will be available in November "that serves as the development platform for a much less expensive ASIC-based solution (second quarter of 2006), contingent on available funding." He adds, "it will include all the necessary graphics and memory hardware, plus other things that we deem are vital to its success as a product in its own right, even in the absence of the OGP graphics core." As for the current status of the project, Timothy explains:

"We will develop the board design and minimal IP (PCI controller, etc.), build prototypes (for a few thousand dollars out of our own pockets), and put the product on sale with a minimum delivery time of four weeks, and we will build devices in minimum lot sizes to keep production costs down. Revenue from the sale of this product will then be used to attract investors and fund the next stage, production of the ASIC. The NRE alone for the ASIC is about $1 million, which means either we'll need that much in investment money, or we'll need a partner who is willing to foot the bill and share in the revenues. (That partner could be the open source community as a whole, in some form or other.)"

Hi,

My name is Hanizam & I have a set of Satelco EasyWatch Mobile. I can view TV on my laptop now.

The problem is, I have to click each channel I want to watch and have to start/stop every channel (PID & Frequency) everytime I want to change to another channel, which I think too tired.

I'm developing a media player, written in VB6, where I can view TV. If I want to change channel, I just click the button UP/DOWN without even bothering to

Where can i get the complete Frame Buffer Document ?

How the Graphics driver works in Linux.?
How the Xfree or xorg Communicating with the Driver.?

Thanx in advance

This is a reprint of a post I made to the Open Graphics Mailing List:

I had mentioned earlier that I've been tied up with the business
aspects of the OGP, and I thought some of you might be interested in
hearing about what's going on and have some discussion on it.

At present, we are focusing our efforts on correctness of what features the hardware will implement. As such, we are developing a C++ model of the 3D rendering pipeline. Periodically, I post updates, and you can download the latest update from this URL:

http://opengraphics.gitk.com/opengr1_1.tgz

Will it beat my old geforce 2 ti for 3d performance?
Would it be possible for one of these cards to accelerate cedega by doing d3d->ogl transformation in hw, and then feed it to one of these high end nvidia ones?

I posted this to the mailing list a while back, but while I'm letting the 3D renderer design settle, I've moved on to video to fill the time. This is a copy/paste of the original post. Note that this post describes the general idea but that the actual implementation is already beginning to differ in some of the fine details.