Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 17:19:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: A clarification (was "Re: X -- ugh")
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On Wed, 21 May 1997, Joseph Morris wrote:

> Let us consider SDD.  Scitech would appear to be in a good position. 
> They have hundreds of video cards and they know them all inside out. 
> They have even managed to extract the specs from Matrox, something I am
> lead to believe is hard to do. 
> 
> If anyone is going to produce drivers for OpenDOS, it is probably going
> to be them. 
> 
> The problem is money.  Univbe is a serious cash-cow for them, and they
> are not likely to part with it for the purposes of OpenDOS. 

Exactly. We need a free option. While porting XFree86 isn't a good idea
because of what I've mentioned, we *could* extract the low-level hardware
drivers from the X servers. It even has support for the S3 ViRGE chipset
as of now (doesn't cover *all* the cards using it, but still is a start)
and has generic VGA/SVGA drivers.

Pierre Phaneuf

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