Re: XWindows for Notebook with NeoMagic-Graphic-Chip

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From: Carl Windsor
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00

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Charlie Stross wrote:
> 
> Reimo Nickel wrote:
>
> >I'm looking for a graphic-device-driver for XWindows/Xfree86 for nice
> >resulutions in SVGA with NeoMagic Magicgraf 128XD Grafik-Chip.
> 
> Go look on www.redhat.com. An XFree86 server with NeoMagic chipset support
> is available from Red Hat; no source code, because they had to sign an
> NDA, but at least it's available.

Not true any more, neomagic have released the details to RedHat
and it is now an XFCom server (waiting to be included into XF86).

Try ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/XBF/old

I got this working on a Toshiba laptop a couple of weeks ago
and it was v.stable

Carl

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From: Carl Windsor <carl.windsor@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: XWindows for Notebook with NeoMagic-Graphic-Chip
Date: 1998/11/25
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