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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:35:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Neomagic Chipset Driver for Linux?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809110033500.2710-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809091700200.702-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>

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On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Brian Handy wrote:

> So the RedHat people apparently signed an NDA for the NeoMagic stuff,
> located here:
> 
> http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/redhat-neomagic.txt
> 
> Did I read a commit message a few days ago where someone worked out that
> -current now had the Linux cojones necessary to run these video drivers?
> (I can't even imagine where to look in the CVS logs to pull this one out,
> which is why I ask.)  If we could run the full-blown accellerated Neomagic
> driver...well...that'd be cool.

I have a recompiled XF86_SVGA for FreeBSD at
http://www.freebsd.org/~dwhite/neomagic/. I'm using this on a Digital
HiNote with a NeoMagic 128 ZV with no problems.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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