On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2001 12:25, Mike Perry wrote:
> | This driver is based on the open source development being done within the
> | XFree86 Project. The driver remains unmodified, with the exception of the
> | HAL module, which is a closed source library used to enable features such
> | as DualHead, TV out, and support for digital flat panel monitors.
>
> I am afraid this is some kind of misunderstanding.
> Matrox binary driver was always based on XFree86 driver.
> The only difference of Matrox binary from XFree86 was this HAL (Hardware
> Abstraction Layer) module.
> I don't see what was changed with this announcement.
>
> Some people can call this Marketing Mess.
Oh hell, I was tricked by their "open source" announcement :(
But I don't have a G450 anyway :P
Abel Cheung
