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Date:      Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:44:24 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   XFree86 and NeoMagic (was: Dell Latitude CPi)
Message-ID:  <19981129104424.P6182@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.05.9811281649340.3739-100000@viper.cs.unm.edu>; from Colin Eric Johnson on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 04:56:39PM -0700
References:  <3244.911395578@gjp.erols.com> <Pine.GSU.4.05.9811281649340.3739-100000@viper.cs.unm.edu>

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On Saturday, 28 November 1998 at 16:56:39 -0700, Colin Eric Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
>> Christian Kuhtz wrote in message ID
>> <19981115210831.A5535@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com>:
>>> Anyone out there who also has a Dell Latitude CPi 266XD notebook and would
>>> like to share configuration experiences?  If so, please contact me at
>>> ck@adsu.bellsouth.com.  I will summarize.
>>
>> I have one (through work). Seems to work OK. Caveats:
>>
>> 1) Uses the NeoMagic display chipset, so either wait for the new XF86 release
>>    or get AccelX from www.xig.com (I prefer the latter ... accelx is just
>>    so much nicer. No offense to the XFree group)
>
> I'd have to agree 100% on this one. I just tried the new XFree86-3.3.3
> release and the NeoMagic support just isn't there yet.

How did you determine that?  According to the release notes, it is.

> The AccelX is great!

I'm using AcceleratedX.  I'm about to convert back to XFree86 when the
multihead support becomes available.

Greg
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