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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: X display drivers Message-ID: <CJDCDu.Jq6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astronomy Department References: <1994Jan8.232151.14301@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 15:29:53 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1994Jan8.232151.14301@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, Douglas Santry <dsantry@maccs.mcmaster.ca> wrote: >Hi, I am considering switching to Free BSD and XFree86 but am conerned >about support for my display card. Is is an ATI XL24 which can do 16.7 >million colours at 640x480. Does anyone know of a display driver that >will support that video 'mode' for X? If not how much would it cost >to have someone write it for me? Please e-mail me with any info you have. >Thanks in advance! > The XFree86 server is a 256 color server. To the best of my knowledge there is no current support in this package for anything beyond this. Does anyone know if the XFree86 team has anything like this on their wish-list? -- - pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu ^ | James J. Pitts - - Most people are sheep. /@\ | IU Physics Dept - - Only a select few are fit to rule. / \ | Voice: 812-855-8247 - - We are The Bavarian Illuminati. /_____\ | FAX : 812-855-5533 -