Don't use Matrox cards (Was re:dosemu)

[Shaya Potter <spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:

> Well, I'm currently using a Cirrus Logic GD5434, which works fine
> with XFree in 8 bit mode, but produces streaks at higher bpp's. Anyway,
> I'm getting a Matrox soon, a real speedster. Thanx for your time...

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If you plan to continue to use XFree, then I hope you don't buy a matrox 
video card.  They do not work with XFree and probably never will.  

They don't give away the information on how to use their cards, so the 
only way XFree could use their cards would be if XFree signed a 
non-disclosure agreement with them, which is kind of hard when you give 
away the source code to your product.  

If you are willing to buy a commercail X server from X inside or Metro X then 
it shouldn't be a problem.  But then again you will have to install it by 
hand, because their is no debian package for it, and dpkg won't know 
about it.

What might be good for you, is that if someone ever comes up with a 
rpm --> deb utility, you can buy a redhat cd, from cheapbuytes for around 
$30-40 and it comes with Metro X.  But if you wan't to be able to get all 
the source code for your programs you are still stuck.

Hope this helps,

Shaya
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Shaya Potter
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