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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: conrad@dirac.physik.uni-bonn.de, grog@lemis.com
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium II
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> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 12:49:41PM +0100, Jan Conrad wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > As you may know there exists a Matrox Millenium II driver (Linux) for
> > XFree86 by SUSE GmbH which can be downloaded from the WEB.  (See i.e.
> > http://www.uni-paderborn.de/mirrors/xfree86/ )
> >
> > Does it work for FreeBSD? There are no sources in the package...
> 
> I'd consider it *extremely* unlikely.  The kernel interface probably
> differs considerably.
> 
> > Is there any way to get support for FreeBSD?
> 
> Check the SuSE people?  There's support for the Millenium in XFree86,
> so that would be the other thing to try.
> 
> Greg
> 

 Umm... I'm using a Matrox Millenium II at the moment with little
 problems (even though it's "alpha" quality in the XFree86 SVGA server.)

 There's a couple of problems in redrawing - but they are more of an
 annoyance than anything else... nothing's "crashed."

	- Dave Rivers -