Re: Re: S3 Trio64 support
There was a commercially available driver, but it wasn't open source
and had a $100 licensing fee. I remember that very specifically. I was
irritated because IBM was selling machines with Linux (RedHat)
preinstalled, yet they had the Matrox card in them and no driver.
Typical.
--Gary
On 11/5/07, Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon 05 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
> > On 11/5/07, Steffen.Pelzetter@nexans.com <Steffen.Pelzetter@nexans.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Boring spending so much time with that configuration issue, I bought 2
> > > used matrox millenium (also certified for that system) 10 eur per card.
> > >
> > It's ironic that you should mention Matrox. Back in 1999-2000 I had
> > this kind of trouble with the Matrox Millennium and RedHat. At that
> > time Matrox was one of those "proprietary secret" interfaces and XFree
> > had no good driver for it.
>
> Hmm, as I remember it, when I got my DEC XLT300 (January 1998), it had a
> Matrox Millenium and that worked perfectly for X under Debian.
>
>
> Paul Slootman
>
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