# Number Nine

An early vendor of 3d graphics cards.  In addition to a number of S3-based boards, they also developed their own line of chips: 

* Imagine 128 
* Imagine 128 II 
* Ticket 2 Ride 
* Ticket 2 Ride IV 
There is also a rumor of a Ticket to Ride V card in some embedded military applications. 

The Ticket 2 Ride and above are basic single-TMU cards capable of OpenGL 1.2 and probably a few extensions.  They only have simple triangles in hardware, but there is a display list processor that can be fed via DMA.  The DMA engine only works over AGP, but there's a memory window engine that can operate over PCI with some double-buffering.  The hardware supports an impressive range of texture formats, including a few YUV formats if you abuse the memory window engine. 

I know much less about the Imagine cards, because I don't have the docs.  I suspect they can't texture. 


## Status

* DRM driver in DRM CVS 
* initial work on DRI driver (not checked in or useful yet) 
See also the [[i128 page on the Xorg wiki|http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/i128]]. 


## Contact

[[AdamJackson|AdamJackson]] is the only one working on #9 support at the moment. 



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