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Russ Price wrote:

> I'd rather spend the extra $200 on a machine with an XFree86-supported
> chipset, or, better yet, find a comparably-priced non-NeoMagic machine
> and spend the $200 on a Global Positioning System receiver.
>
> Sorry, no NeoMagic-infested laptop for me.
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I should agree with you, but nowadays, most new notebooks with large screen,
XGA etc. use NeoMagic. That's the problem the notebook users have to face to.

I hope, someone can write an XFree version for this chipset. The problem for
me is not if the addtional $200, it's the support. Since Accelerated X is not
widely used, people can't get enough information about it from the newsgroup.

Of course, we can't require from Xi graphics to publish the specifications of
NeoMagic chipset, because it's a commercial firm, has contract with NeoMagic,
I only hope someone, who is capable, can do it.

At the end, I think, it's just a question of time, when a XFree version
support for NeoMagic comes, because there are more and more vendors using
NeoMagic, like Dell, NEC, Gateway, Acer ... And compared with C&T, NeoMagic
has better performace (Ref. PC Mag.)

lian

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| Lian Shen                        PhD student for Mathematics |
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