From: robin@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Rob Rainton) Subject: Re: [Q] Has XS3 merged with Xfree? Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:02:43 GMT
In article <C5H77x.487@cs.psu.edu> joe@stat.psu.edu (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
>I am trying to get X working with an Orchid Faherhiet Local bus card. I
>have XS3 working, but there are a few bugs with it. One of the README
>files says that XS3 will be merged with Xfree 1.2, but a friend of mine
>told me that he has can't get Xfree to work with his Orchid Faherhiet
>card. Any experience/help?
On a related note - has anybody done/or is planning to try and get
Xfree to support other accelerators?
I would like to get a linux machine soon (in a couple of months), but
don't want to be limited to having to buy an S3 accelerator when there
are other cards out there claiming (don't know if this is true or not)
to be faster for similar price.
I use SUN systems at the mo, which have a variety of accelerators
(/dev/cg[two|three|six|etc...]) I suppose if you wanted to develop
Xfree for some other chip set we'd have to agree on a device driver to
start with.
If, when I get a system and there was still nothing done on a card I
bought I'd be willing to have a bash at this, but how much info, help,
etc. is there about, and how long do you reckon it would take (this
bit mainly aimed at whoever wrote XS3)?
Just a couply of thoughts,
Rob.