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Re: Matrox Millenium + X



From: Mike Patterson <mike@col.hp.com>
> Then I realized that there isn't an X server for VESA compatible cards. 
> Does anyone know why this is? 

I think it's because the VESA VGA BIOS is a 16-bit program. It's a pain
to interface to that from a 32-bit program, and would probably not be
very fast.

	Bruce
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