VIA releases chipset documentation

"excellent news"? what readily-available (eg newegg) products use a via/s3 onboard graphics chipset? this is too little, too late. a token of good will? yes. useful? not really.

i just searched newegg: one cheap amd motherboard (biostar), a few cheap intel motherboards (biostar & pc chips), and the hp via netbooks. there use to be more motherboards a year or two ago, when socket 939 boards were still plentiful, as that's when i bought mine, but not now. and the hp netbooks: afaik, it's yet to be seen if hp continues with via or if anybody else begins using via, as the market is dominated by intel.

via use to be the top-dog at supplying onboard graphics for motherboards. but now intel, amd/ati, and nvidia all offer onboard graphics and with better support than via.

for the record: i suffered through the (open|uni)chrome video driver confusion/hell for a year before i gave up and bought a cheap ati video card six months ago to use instead of the onboard via. so long, via.