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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.tuwien.ac.at!stud1.tuwien.ac.at!e9325941 From: e9325941@stud1.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Richtsfeld) 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: ANNOUNCE: XFree86 Matrox Millenium News Followup-To: 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 Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:26:56 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lines: 67 Message-ID: <51mg00$t16@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <502le0$lv8@nuke.csu.net> <503p2a$9v@anorak.coverform.lan> <322AC1C6.2402@mail2.svhm.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: stud1.tuwien.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:21983 comp.os.linux.development.system:31890 comp.os.linux.x:41039 comp.os.linux.hardware:50605 comp.os.linux.setup:73697 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1130 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4893 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4612 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27442 Andrew Vanderstock (vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au) wrote: : 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 Hi ! Does this mean there will be a new svgalib with matrox support ? plezze i hope so !! -- Greets from Al ___ _____ .'/,-Y" "~-. l.Y ^. my email: e9325941@stud1.tuwien.ac.at /\ _\_ my homepage: http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9325941/ i ___/" "\ | /" "\ o ! l ] o !__./ \ _ _ \.___./ "~\ X \/ \ ___./ ( \ ___. _..--~~" ~`-. ` Z,-- / \ \__. ( / ______) \ l /-----~~" / Y \ / 'Doh' | "x______.^ | \