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From: geordan@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86 on Matrox Millenium?
Date: 4 Aug 1996 19:35:13 -0700
Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
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In article <4u0pif$410@peabody.colorado.edu>,
doran jonathon howard <doranj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
>I have a Matrox Millenium on this machine, but the card didn't come with
>any documentation. I don't think its a pirate copy :-)  Seriously its
>an OEM version, and the company which sold it to me said it was identical
>to the normal version except it didn't come in a pretty box.  I don't
>have much need for a box, and I thought I'd save a few bucks...

Matrox cards aren't supported by XFree86, and, according to the FAQ (look
on www.xfree86.org) probably never will me.  (Which is too bad.)

>One specific question I have is "is there a way to run that nice
>config script after the system is installed?".

/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config, I think.

-Geordan



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