From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 10 08:38:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18046 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:38:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lambic.physics.montana.edu (lambic.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18039 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (handy@localhost) by lambic.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA13193; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:38:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:38:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy To: Bill Trost cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neomagic Chipset Driver for Linux? In-Reply-To: <8980.905438703@cloud.rain.com> Message-ID: X-files: The truth is out there MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Bill relates:] >We don't need no steenking Linux.... (-: > >Someone produced (on their own, I assume) the drivers necessary to make >X_SVGA work with the NeoMagic chips. They wrote it for Linux, but I >personally attest to it working under FreeBSD, too. > >Wander on over to http://www.monumental.com/js/Neomagic.html and you >should find everything you need I've actually done this, and I'm proud to say it worked the first time! (I had to fiddle with XF86Config a bit, but I don't feel like I've done my job unless I've had to fiddle that knob.) The thing is, I think RedHat signed the NDA and wrote the driver -- replete with the bits to get the accelleration to work. This driver is a bit slow in comparison, I'm told. It would just be neat to get the accelleration stuff working too. (RedHat says on their web page they'll be releasing the source to XFree86 if and when NeoMagic allows them to.) Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message