Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 13:19:33 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: hcremean@vt.edu Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NeoMagic support (was: Re: IrDA) Message-ID: <199710080349.NAA00569@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 22:48:20 -0400." <19971006224820.14366@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
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> On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 11:18:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Not directly relevant, but do you know that the graphics chipset > > (NeoMagic) isn't supported? > > THis prolly isn't the place to ask, but does XFree86 expect to have any > NeoMagic support soon? A friend of mine had to suffer through an X install > on one of these, only to find out it wasn't supported... You're right, it's not. The short answer is "No"; quoting from NeoMagic's website: Linux/Unix/X-Windows: Please contact Xi Graphics for X drivers at <number>. NeoMagic does not support Unix drivers, and cannot provide device/programming information to end-users. I'll give them a few points for referencing Xi, but basically they're making the old stupid mistake of thinking that being proprietary will help them in some way. mike
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