open3D license

[Donsbach, Jeff]

The Powerstorm name was a "marketing name" for a family of very
different 3D graphics cards.
The 300 & 350 were E&S cards. The 4D40T,50T,60T and 51T were Intergraph
cards. None of these have ever had driver code released. The PowerStorm
3D30 and 4D20 aka "TGA2" cards do have driver support under Linux. The
Powerstorm 4D10T which is a Permedia 2 based card, like the ELSA Gloria,
also has Linux support with the Permedia 2 drivers. 

Jeff D

-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of William H. Magill
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 3:27 PM
To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: open3D license

As I recall, the old Powerstorm cards won't work without the license 
key -- in any mode.

And for whatever reason, we were never able to get Compaq and Evans and 
Sutherland (the original manufacture of the cards) to release the 
drivers or the licenses for the Hobbyist License. [Although it appears 
that you can now download the drivers from Compaq. ... depends on which 
card you have and which OS version. This is the 300 and 350.

http://www.support.compaq.com/open3d/swps3x0.htm

These cards were all replaced by the ELSA GLoria video cards.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill