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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:05:55PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>> "ms" == Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> writes:
> 
>     ms> In theory there are some ways one can make them
>     ms> work anyway but that would be quite some work to do if at all
>     ms> feasible.
> 
> see uvesafb in linux for possible starting point

This is one of the approaches I meant, with the XFree86/X.Org
int10 module being a similar one but with a way less problematic
license. Anyway, getting non-FCode/Sun graphics cards to work
would be lots of work IMO better spent on improving the support
for the "native" cards.

Marius