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From: haw30@eng.amdahl.com (Henry A Worth)
Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) which work?
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.175046.28527@ccc.amdahl.com>
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Organization: Amdahl
References: <2mslqq$1vl8@rs560.cl.msu.edu> <michaelv.764537928@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 17:50:46 GMT
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In article <michaelv.764537928@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
|> In <2mslqq$1vl8@rs560.cl.msu.edu> evans@rs560.cl.msu.edu (jeffrey d evans) writes:
|> 
|> 
[...]
|> 
|> Matrox is not supported in XFree86, and rumors are that it never will
|> be (unless you write all the drivers).  I don't think Matrox wants
|> their driver code public.
|> 
[...]
| 
|> Do NOT buy ANY Diamond products!  They are not and will never be
|> supported by XFree86 (although a few adventerous souls have gotten
|> them to limp along at times).  Diamond will not allow their drivers to
|> be public and doesn't care at all that this may cost them a sale
|> because you run a free "unix".  They are quite indifferent to the
|> pleas of free "unix" users.
 
A small point, none of the chip/board vendors provide driver code,
the issue is whether they will provide hardware documentation, without
non-disclosure agreements, that will allow a 3rd party, like the
XFree86[TM] project, write X drivers that can be released to the
public in source form. A few vendors go the extra mile and provide
some tech support, loaner boards, or bits of example code, but such
cooperation is not a pre-req to XFree86 support.      

-- 
Henry Worth - haw30@eng.amdahl.com
No, I don't speak for Amdahl... I'm not even sure I speak for myself.