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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
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Subject: Re: PCI bus cards (graphics and SCSI) which work?
Date: 25 Mar 94 18:53:16 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.764621596@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
References: <2mslqq$1vl8@rs560.cl.msu.edu> <michaelv.764537928@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1994Mar25.175046.28527@ccc.amdahl.com>
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In <1994Mar25.175046.28527@ccc.amdahl.com> haw30@eng.amdahl.com (Henry A Worth) writes:
>In article <michaelv.764537928@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) 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.
Right. I didn't mean to imply that any vendor supplied XFree86
drivers. I meant it to read "Diamond won't let you see any source
code that contains low level drivers for their boards, whether the
source code is commercial or was free, unless you pay them for a
non-disclosure license."
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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