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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: 386bsd new release - when?
Message-ID: <1993Sep2.124324.12716@gmd.de>
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References: <1993Sep2.003102.675@news.csuohio.edu> <CGD.93Sep1175536@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <2645oo$16v@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Sep2.121740.23140@sophia.smith.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 12:43:24 GMT
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In article <1993Sep2.121740.23140@sophia.smith.edu>, jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes:
|> In article <2645oo$16v@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
|> > THe total install took about 90 minutes, and I now have the
|> > latext XFree86 server running with my S3 805 card, and am
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
|>
|> Would you care to elaborate? Where can I get my hands on this
|> server? I'm just on the edge of jumping over to the NetBSD ship,
|> but there are many unanswered questions about whether or not
|> there is an S3 server that works with the 805 under 0.9. I do
|> not have the resources (read: disk space) to throw around the X
|> sources so I'm hesitant to move unless I know I can get a
|> functional binary.
|>
|> -john
Be patient. What Marc is talking about is something which doesn't exist for
the public. This is alpha/beta code of the coming XFree86-2.0 and is available
for a restricted group only. The S3-805 is supported in 2.0, as well as
a number of other S3, Mach, 8514, Cirrus - based accelerated boards.
And this is not only a feature for NetBSD-0.9, but this will work on
any *BSD-of-the-day. So availability of Xservers alone is no reason to
move to 0.9; of course, there might be other good reasons to do this.
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