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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: Parhelia and FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:16:41 -0400
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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


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