From: jlzhong@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Jialin Zhong) Subject: Re: Cirrus XFree86 Driver: Alpha tester volunteers Date: 6 Apr 1993 05:38:50 GMT
westmstr!jeb@sunpitt.east.sun.com (John E.Baer II {west17}) writes:
>Bill, the mail I sent you bounced back. Here it is:
>A colleague and I are very interested in your Cirrus 5426 driver for
>XFree86. We recently purchased systems that were to be equipped with
>an ET4000 card, but the vendor took the liberty of substituting a Genoa
>8500VL card. This would have been great for a DOS/Windows user but not
>so good for a linux user, at least until now.
>Before returning our cards (or systems), we want to try your driver.
>We are currently running SLS .99p14 on a 486/33 local bus machine. Do
>you know of any compatibility issues of running your driver with a local
>bus video card?
>What we will need to know is:
> 1.) What is required to build the XFree server with your driver
> (source, libraries, Makefiles, etc.) and how can they be
> obtained
> 2.) Does the build require a large amount of disk space
> 3.) How to build (Makefiles required and their sequence)
> 4.) A sample Xconfig file
> 5.) Any additional info that you feel pertinent.
>If you could point us in the general direction, you will acquire two
>additional alpha testers.
>Thanks.
>John
me too, i have a vl24 bitblaster with cirrus logic cl-gd5426 controller.
could you send me your driver too? thank you.
Jialin