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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86 on Matrox Millenium?
Date: 5 Aug 1996 19:48:22 GMT
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geordan@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) wrote:

> Matrox cards aren't supported by XFree86, and, according to the FAQ (look
> on www.xfree86.org) probably never will me.  (Which is too bad.)

There's a vague chance that this might change some day.  I've heard a
rumour from someone who has been told that Matrox is going to release
some ``Device driver developers kit''.  (Don't ask me for details
though, that's all i know.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)