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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newspump.sol.net!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!trog.dra.hmg.gb!usenet From: isandell@dra.hmg.gb (Ian Sandell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: XFree86 Matrox Millenium News Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:06:51 GMT Organization: Defence Research Agency Lines: 25 Message-ID: <50jgd2$ret@trog.dra.hmg.gb> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <502le0$lv8@nuke.csu.net> <503p2a$9v@anorak.coverform.lan> <322AC1C6.2402@mail2.svhm.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.80.77.110 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:21342 comp.os.linux.development.system:30898 comp.os.linux.x:39656 comp.os.linux.hardware:49112 comp.os.linux.setup:71439 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1086 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4761 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4520 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26515 Andrew Vanderstock <vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au> wrote: >Hi there, >A team has been formed to write the Matrox driver. Thanks go to ><a href="mailto:andrew@harlequin.co.uk">Andrew Aitchison</a> for >getting this effort off the ground. >Matrox will be giving us the needed documentation and the ability >to publish the source code freely, so we will be joining the >XFree86 project. >Hopefully the driver will eventually join the XFree86 source >tree in a few weeks to a couple of months. A pre-release driver >will be announced when it is ready for public consumption. >The team's web page is: >http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html Great news. I had given up with Linux do to lack of support for Millenium. Will work with anticipation. Ian