On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: > > > Well, I'm currently using a Cirrus Logic GD5434, which works fine > > with XFree in 8 bit mode, but produces streaks at higher bpp's. Anyway, > > I'm getting a Matrox soon, a real speedster. Thanx for your time... > > IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT > > If you plan to continue to use XFree, then I hope you don't buy a matrox > video card. They do not work with XFree and probably never will.
I'm not sure this is true. What source gave you that information? > > They don't give away the information on how to use their cards, so the > only way XFree could use their cards would be if XFree signed a > non-disclosure agreement with them, which is kind of hard when you give > away the source code to your product. > > If you are willing to buy a commercail X server from X inside or Metro X then > it shouldn't be a problem. But then again you will have to install it by > hand, because their is no debian package for it, and dpkg won't know > about it. > > What might be good for you, is that if someone ever comes up with a > rpm --> deb utility, you can buy a redhat cd, from cheapbuytes for around > $30-40 and it comes with Metro X. But if you wan't to be able to get all > the source code for your programs you are still stuck. Now I'm pretty sure this is not true. Last time I checked, redhat linux came with a beta version of the Metro X software that was pretty buggy and very slow. The same beta was available from Metro X directly as well. You don't have to get it in .rpm format. Accelerated X has a demo of their server available too, and I don't think theirs is beta. > > Hope this helps, > > Shaya You may be right on both counts, but I'd still like to be sure. Please let us know. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *******************************************************************************