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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
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Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:26:56 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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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
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