Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:16:41 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parhelia and FreeBSD Message-ID: <200209261616.41107.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20020926111351.A26046@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200209260011.11510@aldan> <200209261405.37340.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020926111351.A26046@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Thursday 26 September 2002 02:13 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: = > = I was wondering the same thing, Matrox released the 2D Linux drivers, = > = and in the past, the Linux dirvers worked pretty good on my boxes, = > = but I am curious to how the Parhelia does. = > = > Mmm, you mean, one can just force the Linux mtx_drv.o into the XFree86 = > and get away with it? It is only available in binary :-( Or am I missing = > something? Thanks! = That's how the 4.x XFree86 driver infrastructure works. Drivers are = only architecture dependent, not OS dependent. I use the gatos binary = drivers for the ATI Rage P/M Mobility in my laptop so I can get xv = support and the page is nearly 100% linux: = = http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php That would be cool... But the matrox' new tarball ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2002/mtxdrivers-0.1.8.tgz contains plenty of kernel code too -- a module, I suppose. I wonder if the driver will work without it -- even if in a limited fashion... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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