On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> 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? > Put it this way, from what I have read on usenet, and have been told from friends who have called Matrox, they do not intend ever to give out the information needed to program their cards without a non-disclosure agreement. However, they could do the samething Diamond did after many people complained to them about the practice and change their policy toward Linux. But as I said before, Matrox seems pretty set in their ways right now. > > > > 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. > This I didn't know. However, is the demo of Accelerated X fully functioning, or is it really just a demo. > > 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 > > Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]