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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 18:18:30 +0100
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Matrox Mystique driver for Allegro?
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Orlando Andico wrote:

> read what you will from the second paragraph!!! (specially the part where
> Matrox is "working on documentation.") but i didn't find any on Matrox's
> home page..
I've just browsed through all their pages, and there's NOTHIN
interesting there! What a waste of bandwidth!!

> i've looked through the XFree86 sources myself and i think it wouldn't be
> too hard to adapt the code as all the drivers have the same layout
> (bank-switching, video card initialization)..  the intro is in
> /usr/lib/X11/doc/VGADriver.Doc (on Slackware Linux) one nice thing is that
> the assembly parts are already coded in AT&T-style 32-bit assembly that
> your GAS can eat happily..
BTW. That's stupid question, but 'm kinda confused. I d/loaded the
latest Slackware 3.1 to upgrade my linux  and found only diffs for
XFree86, no full sources (later on I bought a magazine just to get the
CD which came with it and had Slackware on it - I thought I haven't
d/loaded all sources). So where do I get the latest XFree86 sources (esp
servers)?

> interest is mainly UNIX if ever i do get one it's already supported.. but
> i suppose you could do it!!!  :)
Gee, I suppose I will have to! My Millenium is still in the box as it
refuses to work with X ;-)) I still use my old, good GUI Trident, so I
guess I WILL write the driver - just must have some docs.

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