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In article <C2wKMC.2zD@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>*furthermore*, with the card, there is no mention whatsoever of SCO or
>>*NIX and there are no drivers for SCO or *NIX ???????
>
>Some video boards, yes -- you are correct -- however the higher end
>"high-res" boards usually include unix drivers [...]

Our X11R5 product supports over 110 seperate video cards, of the ~20 or
so cards that run at resolutions higher than 1024x768 I am aware of only
one vendor that also ships working X11R5 driver support that integrates
into our X server (for multiheaded servers, etc).

>The bottom line is, that in a high percentage of cases, the latest
>release of the drivers is available from the vendor verses what is
>on the distribution media with the OS.

As far as X support for video cards is concerned this is quite definitely
not the case, at least at SCO.  We work very closely with video hardware
manufacturers and they provide us with invaluable input on their hardware,
and even though it would be nice to get some help writing drivers for all
the cards we support, it has panned out that nearly all drivers have been
written by people here.

I would suggest that rather than expecting to get a working driver when
you shell out big dollars for high-res/high-speed video hardware, you get
the Hardware Compatibility Guide for your particular flavor of Unix and
make sure it says in black and white that your hardware is supported.
-- 
          Stacey Campbell - staceyc@sco.com - uunet!sco!staceyc