From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 22:05:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA22606 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA22584 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA07506; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 22:05:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Rick Afonso cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drivers for NeoMagic graphics card for X-Windows In-Reply-To: <199709031406.QAA29820@mail.global.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Rick Afonso wrote: > Hi there > > I have a notebook computer, with a NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV graphics > card. I would like to use FreeBSD and X-Windows on my notebook. Does > FreeBSD have support for the NeoMagic graphics cards for X-Windows ? More correctly, does XFree86 have support for the NeoMagic cards? The answer is no -- NeoMagic wants an NDA and XFree can't do that. > Apparently Xi Graphics have a driver set which supports this card, my > problem is that I can't afford to spend $150 ~= R750 in South Africa > for this software. Also My notebook is three weeks old - I cannot > have it replaced nor can I afford another one. That is your option for X -- or run 320x200x16. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo