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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!cgl!itssrv1.ucsf.edu!dek From: dek@lc2.ucsf.edu (David Konerding) 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: 19 Apr 1996 17:51:53 GMT Organization: UCSF Lines: 33 Message-ID: <slrn4nfkp9.15a.dek@lc2.ucsf.edu> References: <4jv7of$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> <stephenkDpnHM8.864@netcom.com> <31702BA0.58F7B46@lambert.org> <199604142243.XAA04706@kythera.demon.co.uk> <4l3257$pug@Mars.mcs.com> Reply-To: dek@cgl.ucsf.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lc2.ucsf.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.3) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14521 comp.os.linux.development.system:21526 comp.os.linux.x:29488 comp.os.linux.hardware:36540 comp.os.linux.setup:50831 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:628 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3248 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3066 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17471 In article <4l3257$pug@Mars.mcs.com>, Michael Kaufman wrote: >In article <199604142243.XAA04706@kythera.demon.co.uk>, >Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>Furthermore it appears (from some of the recent postings in this >>group) that XInside have an _exclusive_ deal to provide "drivers" for >>X/Unix. > >Furthermore, the fact the MetroLink also sells Millenium "drivers" >for X/Unix makes it somewhat doubtful that XInside has an _exclusive_ >deal. MetroLink sells drivers for Millenium. However, they do not take advantage of hardware graphics rendering. Therefore, the Millenium drivers aren't very useful to those of us who are porting OpenGL software from SGI to Linux, since Linux can't take advantage of the speed of the Millenium driver. It would be very frustrating if Xinside got some sort of "exclusive" deal to make drivers which take advantage of hardware graphics rendering- I'm not 'loyal' to MetroLink but I'd rather see some competition for writing the drivers, rather than a monopoly. > >Michael > >-- > Michael L. Kaufman | Everything should be made as simple as possible, > kaufman@mcs.com | but not simpler. > http://www.mcs.net/~kaufman | Albert Einstein