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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 3C501 Ether driver, XS3+codrv Message-ID: <1993Mar9.043947.4016@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Mar2.114020@sun6.lri.fr> <1993Mar5.132206.15422@gmd.de> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 04:39:47 GMT Lines: 44 In article <1993Mar5.132206.15422@gmd.de> veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: >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). My order of prioritiels are different and it has nothing to do with the complexity of your codrv. There are many XFree86 features that are very easy to implement in XS3 which I just flat out refuse to implement. >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. > It probably shouldn't be to hard to add support for the console driver However, with little imagination anyone can ask Holger and look elsewhere how is done and just do it. My primary thrust is not to support all the features of XFree86 and there is a very good reason for that. In a nutshell, is management of manpower. XS3 is wide open so if anyone wants to add or work with me on any features you are welcome. Regards, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming