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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!usenet From: vladimir@Burner.dsg.stanford.edu (Vladimir Vukicevic) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 25 Mar 1996 06:19:21 GMT Organization: DSG, Stanford University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <VLADIMIR.96Mar24221921@Burner.dsg.stanford.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <stephenkDosrBD.D0@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: burner.dsg.stanford.edu In-reply-to: stephenk@netcom.com's message of Mon, 25 Mar 1996 00:14:01 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13565 comp.os.linux.development.system:19875 comp.os.linux.x:27412 comp.os.linux.hardware:34115 comp.os.linux.setup:46809 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:271 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2739 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2524 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15878 In article <stephenkDosrBD.D0@netcom.com> stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) writes: > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Are matrox cards sold as VGA or SVGA compatible? If they ARE, and this info > is NEEDED to use them as such, then they are guilty of FRAUD! They are > honor bound to disseminate such info. FURTHER, the card could be reverse > engineered WITHOUT knowledg of how it works! The BIOS is even EASIER to > reverse engineer. > Whoa, slow down. The card is VESA 2.0 compatible -- which means that you can access all the nifty high res video modes through INT 0x10. However, INT 0x10 is non-reentrant real-mode code -- which makes it useless in a 32-bit OS such as Linux or BSD. - Vladimir