Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) 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: 27 Mar 1996 04:33:10 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4jage6$5vn@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> <4j8s8a$q8b@newstand.syr.edu> <stephenkDovrzv.E38@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13737 comp.os.linux.development.system:20129 comp.os.linux.x:27780 comp.os.linux.hardware:34550 comp.os.linux.setup:47525 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:315 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2814 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2594 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16120 Stephen Knilans <stephenk@netcom.com> wrote: >> HOWEVER, as has been pointed out, you don't need to reverse engineer the >>drivers! What would that get you anyway? We'd know how to write drivers for >>Windows 95? No, what needs to be done is to figure out what code to use for >>the hardware. We wouldn't be using any Matrox code and they don't have the >>right to say you can't use their hardware in a specific way! It's a simple >>black-box problem. For given input, what is the output? > >Have you ever TRIED what you suggest? Do you have any IDEA how many adressess >would have to be checked? Some graphics cards have registers to registers, and >you have to KNOW of their existence unless you want to spend 100s of years of >research. With the program, it takes a few minutes/hours. Soft-ICE. --Tim Smith