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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Problems running XS3-0.3 on various S3 cards
Message-ID: <1993Aug10.065351.27671@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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References: <244rr2$6jv@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> <hastyCBHF68.42s@netcom.com> <CBHsu9.3L@obiwan.uucp>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 06:53:51 GMT
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In article <CBHsu9.3L@obiwan.uucp>, bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox) writes:
|> In article <hastyCBHF68.42s@netcom.com>,
|> Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote:
|> >XS3 does not work with NetBSD current. The good folks changed the kernel
|> >enough. I am sure that they had good reasons to change things a bit.
|> >It is hard for me to keep upgrading or maintaining code for all
|> >the variants of 386bsd. I don't have the bandwith nor a great movitation
|> >to do the job. Funny, how a small Unix group can get so fragmented like
|> >the rest of the Unix community. We are mirroring the market too closely.
|> >
|> >XS3 for 386bsd works with NetBSD-0.8, 386bsd-0.1, the 386bsd + patchkit
|> >(provided that you include pccons.c)
|>
|> Does this mean that XS3 will NOT work with 386bsd-0.1 + 0.2.4 + codrv?
|>
This means that XS3 still has no seperate /dev/kbd (thus having the known
console bugs with pccons) and the corresponding code which is in XFree86
for some time. Perhaps you might wait wait for an S3 implementation in
XFree86-2.0 (an alpha version is currently under test).
|>
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|> Phone: 512 258-4224 (home)
|> 512 838-3914 (work)
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