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



> > Um, FYI Matroax *HAVE* now allowed the source code to be released, and the
> > drivers for their cards are being worked on, (at last) so, you can use
> > this to tell what card to get ;)
> >
> >
> > -Barry Hughes
> 
> When did this happen?  I talked to a friend, just a couple of weeks ago,
> and he said he just talked to Matrox and they were pretty dead set
> against giving their support away like that.  However, if I am wrong I
> admit it, and apologize for the wrong advice I gave.
> 
> Shaya
> --
> Shaya Potter
> spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil

Atleast so far you can't get a XFree accel'ed Xserver.. I and a friend
installed
debian on his machine and then we came to that conclution.. And running
Xwin
in 640x480x8bit isn't all that fun.. so we scrapped that project.. (for
a while
atleast...)

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