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From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: XFree86 for Cirrus?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 23:56:22 GMT
Message-ID: <C5ynu0.26v@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Keywords: Cirrus truecolor
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In article <thinmanC5y9sG.AAI@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
> Is anyone working on Cirrus chip drivers for XFree86?
> The Cirrus 5422 and 5426 are turning up in a lot of <$100
> truecolor cards.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Lance Norskog
> thinman@netcom.com
> Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.

The Cirrus chipsets will likely be supported in 1.3.  We have a driver
that is being tested; from what I understand, it should be sufficiently
stable by the time 1.3 ships.  Note that this will only be an SVGA
driver.  The accelerated features of the 5426 won't be available until
2.0

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