Alternatives to XFree86 and the Parhelia drivers...

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Alternatives to XFree86 and the Parhelia drivers...

10 March 2004, 05:13

Haven't had time lately to look into this, so I figured I'd just ask here With the talk of XFree86's new licensing for 4.4, and the possibility that distros are going to start switching over to the various other X Servers out there, will the current Matrox Parhelia driver work with these? For instance the X.org one?

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10 March 2004, 11:58

The X.org server does not support the XFree86 driver model. XFree86 is basically the X.org server with a new driver model plus some additional extensions.

Now if there is framebuffer support in the kernel for the parhelia, you can run the fdo X server on it - sans OGL, except maybe through Mesa. I haven't tried the fdo X server yet, so I don't really know much about it.

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