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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:41:08 GMT
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In article <slrn525i9j.gjk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> Alain.Knaff@inrialpes.fr writes:
>In <3222A2C3.7833@bayarea.net>, Brian F. Kimball <kimball@bayarea.net> wrote:
>:Sean Hafeez wrote:
>:
>:> Damm. I was just going to post to ask if I could run Linux on my system
>:> with my 8MB Matrox card. What exactly is the deal with the drivers for a
>:> Matrox card (this thread does not go back far enough on my news
>:> sever..sorry)? I personal have always found Matrox to be a great company.
>:> Email is answered by the next day and driver problems are addressed ASAP.
>:> Also, being as I run OS/2 I am very happy with them because other their
>:> continuing support of OS/2.
>:
>: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's understandable, given the fact that they have only changed their
>ways two weeks ago :-)

Last year, I had a chance to talk to a service engineer in person and 
he was willing to co-operate on giving away information. Unfortunatly,
at the time I was not really interested on the Matrox video cards rather
their Matrox Meteor 8)

So in a nutshell , a bit of diplomacy can help .

	Cheers,
	Amancio


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