Re: Re: S3 Trio64 support
On Mon 05 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
> 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.
In http://xfree.org/3.3.6/MGA.html , dated December 1998, the support
for the Matrox is described; in one of the underlying pages:
* Makes extensive use of the graphics accelerator. This server is very
well accelerated, and is one of the fastest XFree86 X servers.
That's exactly what I remember.
Paul Slootman
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