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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!usenet From: Andrew Vanderstock <vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au> 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: ANNOUNCE: XFree86 Matrox Millenium News Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 22:15:18 +1000 Organization: Information Services, SVHM Lines: 39 Message-ID: <322AC1C6.2402@mail2.svhm.org.au> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <502le0$lv8@nuke.csu.net> <503p2a$9v@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au NNTP-Posting-Host: svhmfw01.svhm.org.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (WinNT; I) CC: vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:21281 comp.os.linux.development.system:30812 comp.os.linux.x:39529 comp.os.linux.hardware:48991 comp.os.linux.setup:71221 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1083 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4749 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4506 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26415 Hi there, A team has been formed to write the Matrox driver. Thanks go to <a href="mailto:andrew@harlequin.co.uk">Andrew Aitchison</a> for getting this effort off the ground. Matrox will be giving us the needed documentation and the ability to publish the source code freely, so we will be joining the XFree86 project. Hopefully the driver will eventually join the XFree86 source tree in a few weeks to a couple of months. A pre-release driver will be announced when it is ready for public consumption. The team's web page is: http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html There will be a mailing list in a few days. An announcement will be made as soon as it is going. We are still after people who would be interested in doing actual coding. You have to like x86 assembly language, don't mind your unix box crashing a lot, and can work in an international team of co-coders. We are also looking for non-Linux and non-Intel coders or testers. We are at the planning stage, and are currently without documentation, but we want something to happen really soon. Most of the current team are using Linux, but the project is Xfree86 compatible, not just Linux compatible. We are are also looking at x-platform compatibility. Does anyone use any variant of XFree86 on any other CPU besides Intel compatible CPUs (such as the DEC Alpha, PowerPC, MIPS, Sparc, etc)? If so, we'd like to hear from you if you want to use a Matrox PCI card on your system. have fun Andrew Vanderstock vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au