On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Barry Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter 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... > > >From experience Cirrus cards and chipsets work very well with XFree86, and > I would tend to recommend them. > > >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. > >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. > > > Um, FYI Matroax *HAVE* now allowed the source code to be released, and the > drivers for their cards are being worked on, (at last) so, you can use > this to tell what card to get ;) > > > -Barry Hughes When did this happen? I talked to a friend, just a couple of weeks ago, and he said he just talked to Matrox and they were pretty dead set against giving their support away like that. However, if I am wrong I admit it, and apologize for the wrong advice I gave. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]