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From: mi@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X Inxide's X Window System version 11 release 6 (X11. 6) server replacement
Date: 13 Jun 1996 04:56:12 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Andi Baritchi
wrote on 08 Jun (in article <31B9AC5A.3647@airmail.net>):
=Is anybody successfully using this video driver in FreeBSD with a Matrox
=Millenium video card? I've got a Millenium and want to use it with
=FreeBSD but I'm not sure if it's worth the $100 for the drivers.
It will work with their driver. But be carefull -- when their customer
support becomes annoyed by you, they will just stop answering.
Despite the fact that they are charging money, they want a treatment
free-software developers are getting. You are supposed to be nice,
patient and cooperative with them. At some point I was told that they
"are not likely to have an immediate fix" for my problem...
But the server works (has some bugs, but I know work-arounds), and is
fast. Since you _already_ have the card -- buy the server and use it.
Do not buy the card if you did not yet. Get smth supported by XFree86 --
much more robust X-servers, IMHO.
-mi
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