Haiku Getting Via Graphics Support
Jul 15, 2005 00:48 UTC, by Kian Duffy, Senior Journalist
From the yet-more-video department...

Rudolf Cornellisen, author of the nVidia, Neomagic and Matrox drivers for Haiku, has started work on a driver for Via graphics adapters. Currently, it has the ID's for the Via CLE266 in the driver - wheter it will be extended to support the new Unichrome cards or not is presumably up to Rudolf's available coding time. 
 
Via graphics adapters are found on some entry-level laptops and motherboards; but most commonly, and most importantly, on the Mini- and Micro-ITX motherboards becoming ever more popular in embedded systems. Some recent Via motherboards are 12 centimetres along each edge; and have an integrated Via graphics, sound and network controller. With the graphics driver, the last piece of hardware on the board becomes supported under Haiku - networking is supported with the Via Rhine driver, and sound with the Auvia driver. 
 
Haiku's video driver support now covers the majority of non-Intel provided adapters, with drivers for cards as new as Radeon's and GeForce 6xxx PCI-Express cards; down to venerable oldies like the ATi Mach 64 and Tseng Labs ET6000's. 
 
Source for the Via driver can be seen here and here for the accelerant and kernel driver respectively.