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From: evan@telly.org (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
Message-ID: <DwspBC.1BM@telly.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:59:36 GMT
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In article <3222A2C3.7833@bayarea.net>,
	Brian F. Kimball <kimball@bayarea.net> wrote:

>Some people have the wrong impression that Matrox is refusing to give
>information about their cards to XFree if the source will be available.

>That used to be the case, now they have changed their ways.  I'm using
>a 4MB Millenium card and it works great with RedHat 3.0.3/MetroX.  There
>are no problems.

This is not a contradiction. You are using a Matrox with MetroX, a
non-free, non-source-available X server. It is still not supportable by
XFree86.
-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
Caldera Business Partner / SCO Authorized VAR / evan@telly.org / (905) 452-0504
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