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From: veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: 3C501 Ether driver, XS3+codrv
Message-ID: <1993Mar5.132206.15422@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@fanoe (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <1993Mar2.114020@sun6.lri.fr>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 13:22:06 GMT
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In article <1993Mar2.114020@sun6.lri.fr>, fcb@sun6.lri.fr (Francois Berjon) writes:
|> Has anyone developped/ported an ethernet driver for the old 3COM 3C501
|> ethernet card? I have a couple which I am very eager to use.
|>
|> Another question: Holger Veit's codrv console driver used not to work with
|> the XS3 server. Has this problem been adressed, or does one still need
|> to have a special X11 server to use Dr. veit's driver?
Some day there will be only one type of Xserver for each family
(vga, S3/8514, hga, ega, etc.), which detect and understand all
console drivers dealing with X11 support. To my knowledge, no one of
the S3 / 8514 hackers have yet asked for assistance or information
about codrv (Amancio has explicitly refused to take more complicated
things than pccons into account).
There are efforts to get the non-VGA servers into a future release of
XFree86, but no information available about the forthcome of that.
So, currently there is no chance with non XFree86-1.2 compliant video
cards. Sorry, there's nothing I can do.
Holger
|> --
|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Francois Berjon fcb@lri.fr fcb@FRLRI61.BITNET
|> Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS URA 410
|> Universite Paris Sud, ORSAY, FRANCE
|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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