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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: Holger Veit's codrv with XFree86 1.2
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References: <1993Mar4.173435.16907@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993Mar5.084007.24627@gmd.de> <1993Mar6.231211.28743@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 01:38:41 GMT
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In article <1993Mar6.231211.28743@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>
>mail to jon@robots.oxford.ac.uk and ask him for a copy of his
>XFree86 1.2 it has support for both S3 and 8514.
>
>You will have to build XFree86 1.2 or wait for me because there is a 
>binary copy of it  over at ref waiting to be tested by me.
>
>This work on XFree86 is not related to the XFree86 core team and
>it is mostly the work of Jon Tombs from the Linux group.

Please do not post incorrect information such as this.

The facts are:

1. XFree86 1.2 does not have support for S3 and 8514

2. There is no version of XFree86 available that has this support.

3. There is a group of people (including Jon) working on adding this
   support to a future version of XFree86 (2.0), and this work is
   being done with the XFree86 core team.

4. This work will not be available to the public until XFree86 2.0
   is released.  It is still early days, and there is no projected
   release date yet.

>Regards,
>	Amancio

David
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