From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 20:52:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA15598 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA15587 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00569; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:19:35 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710080349.NAA00569@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hcremean@vt.edu cc: Greg Lehey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NeoMagic support (was: Re: IrDA) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 22:48:20 -0400." <19971006224820.14366@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 13:19:33 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 11:18:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Not directly relevant, but do you know that the graphics chipset > > (NeoMagic) isn't supported? > > THis prolly isn't the place to ask, but does XFree86 expect to have any > NeoMagic support soon? A friend of mine had to suffer through an X install > on one of these, only to find out it wasn't supported... You're right, it's not. The short answer is "No"; quoting from NeoMagic's website: Linux/Unix/X-Windows: Please contact Xi Graphics for X drivers at . NeoMagic does not support Unix drivers, and cannot provide device/programming information to end-users. I'll give them a few points for referencing Xi, but basically they're making the old stupid mistake of thinking that being proprietary will help them in some way. mike