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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree 3.1.2 and S3 Virge Chipset
Date: 31 Oct 1996 21:54:24 GMT
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Colin Dalton (csdalton@tcd.ie) wrote:
: In <5577e3$a34@ujf.ujf-grenoble.fr> gilles.bruno@ujf-grenoble.fr (Gilles BRUNO) writes:

: >Should I wait the soon-coming Xfree 3.2 release ?

: According to the 3.2 README, it's supported. A 3.2 directory has appeared
: on xfree86.org, but there's been no announcement. Go figure.


  It doesn't work with the XFree distributed with 2.1.5.  I asked some
people at XFree and they said they were working on it but there is
not a driver yet for it.  ( or so I am told )  The S3 chipset in the 
D2000 is new.

: --
: Colin Dalton 
: If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage.  But
: this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is
: somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.