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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: X-windows & Diamond VLB Message-ID: <michaelv.742745330@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <CA6rDw.54H@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <CA6rrE.5pK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 14:08:50 GMT Lines: 33 In <CA6rrE.5pK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ldv@anaconda.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Vaught) writes: >I read through the FAQ for XFree86, and it claims that it won't >support my card due to trade secrets and non disclosure. They're >afraid that Diamond Computer Systems will file legal action against >them. Diamond doesn't like you. You run free software, so are evil. Nevermind that you paid them good money for a card. You cannot have a graphics driver for their card without also paying for it. You're quite welcome to write a driver for it, but to do that you have to pay Diamond a lot of money to become one of their developers. And if you do this, you're not allowed to freely release the source code of your driver. Plus, they don't care enough about you to write a driver themselves for 386bsd--it's not important enough to them. This fascism is why your card is not supported. >I'm beginning to lose hope. I have a quality graphics card, and it >seems to be all but unusable. I'm open to any suggestions as to how >I can get X up and running on my machine. There are many quality graphics cards on the market. If possible, you might try taking this card back to where you bought it and buy one from someone who cares a little more about their customer base, and a little bit less about their bottom line. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------