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

["Richard G. Roberto" <richr@bear.com>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:

> 
> 
> 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...
> 
> IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
> 
> 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.  

I'm not sure this is true.  What source gave you that
information?

> 
> 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.

Now I'm pretty sure this is not true.  Last time I checked,
redhat linux came with a beta version of the Metro X
software that was pretty buggy and very slow.  The same beta
was available from Metro X directly as well.  You don't have
to get it in .rpm format.  Accelerated X has a demo of their
server available too, and I don't think theirs is beta.

> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Shaya

You may be right on both counts, but I'd still like to be
sure.  Please let us know.

Thanks

Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
201-739-2886 - whippany, nj


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