Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 22:50:32 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New XFree86 release soon (was Re: xdm & login.conf limits.) Message-ID: <19980123225032.54560@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199801231017.LAA08996@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 11:17:32AM %2B0100 References: <19980123095511.41718@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199801231017.LAA08996@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 11:17:32AM +0100, Mikael Karpberg wrote: >According to David Dawes: >> >Cool. I hope you can use the stuff from S.U.S.E., in particular the >> >Matrox Mill-II version has been working well here with only one little >> >line in the right-hand side of my screen at the very center. (I got the >> >FreeBSD version that Dirk made available.) >> >> Yes, with the possible exception of one driver that wasn't present in 3.3.1, >> all the SuSE stuff will be in 3.3.2. > >I have a Winfast 2300 card right now, which I'm testing, and it only runs >with the VGA server, which is a bit annoying. And the S.u.S.e team only have >Linux elf binaries, which uses stuff in the linux emulator which is not >implemented yet. :-( This has inspired me to try to get the linux version >running, so I might be looking into doing some patches for the linux emu, >unless it ends up TOO much work. Yeah, they don't have a FreeBSD binary for that one. I'm not sure why. >I know you're probably sick of answering these kinda of questions, but it's >rather important for me, as I need to know if I can buy this card. VGA server >is not a tempting working enviroment. So... > >1) Do you know if that realease will include the permedia2 support? It won't. My understanding is that there are some NDA issues that need to be resolved before it can be included in full release. >2) Also, how soon is it to be released, approx? One week? three weeks? > two month? a year? :-) The plan is about 6-8 weeks. No guarantees though. David
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