From: Matan Ziv-Av (zivav@CS.bgu.ac.il)
Date: Thu 07 Oct 1999 - 12:28:35 IST
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Andrew Gormanly wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the case that there is no X (at > least no xfree86) driver for this chipset yet, for the same reason, i.e. > ATI's utter unhelpfulness with the specs? The framebuffer X-server is > usable, though. There is a SuSE X server for rage128, and it will be folded into XFree86 in the next release. I understand that SuSE have no problem with the source (as they do give it to the XFree86 project), they just don't want to bother with the source release. > I suggest gettingon to ATI about this, ignoring all their flak about > it being up to the xfree/svga people to provide drivers, and mentioning > the linux (X) drivers provided by ATI's competition -- 3dfx, S3, NVIDIA. > It's the only way we can change their stubborn atitude.... I suggest buying supported cards (V3 and TNT are supported by both X, 3d accel and svgalib). -- Matan Ziv-Av matan@svgalib.org
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