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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Porting XFree86 code...
Date: 22 Sep 1994 15:04:40 GMT
Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
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In article <35s2so$8k1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, philippe@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Philippe Pouliquen) writes:
|> Hi all,
|>
|> I'll be working on a port of the XFree86 driver to the new S3/964
|> graphics engine (used in the Number Nine GXE64 Pro for instance)
|> as soon as I get the manuals from S3. I already have a Tech Note
|> from S3 describing the differences between the S3/928 and the S3/964.
|>
|> However, it would help to know who to contact about the older S3
|> code, and about anybody who is attempting the same thing.
|>
|> Also, where do I get the full source distribution for XFree86
|> (Do I still need to get patches after I get the X11/R5 or X11/R6
|> distribution from MIT?).
|>
|> Philippe Pouliquen
|> e-mail: philippe@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
|>
Guess the XFree86 guys will reply to you anyway (I am not a speaker for them),
but you should get in contact with xfree86@XFree86.org immediately, in
order to avoid reinventing wheels, if you want to do some port.
The new XFree86-3.1 will be out soon, these are the only patches you need
on the plain X11R6 (the MIT public patches are already in there then),
so you should wait a bit and not try to get an outdated version
(XFree86-2.* or X11R5).
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