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Subject: [WarpCast] Matrox declares OS/2 as older Operation System
From: "WarpCast News Service" <feedbackatwarpcast.com>
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Source: Klaus Staedtler (staedtler-przyborskiatweb.de)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (feedbackatwarpcast.com)
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Matrox has moved its OS/2 drivers to the older operation systems page
(together with windows 3.x, and NT 3.X):

  http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/prev_latest.htm 

The placeholder for OS/2 is now Linux on the latest driver page:

  http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/home.htm 

But there is some good news about the linux drivers from the Matrox
user group:

Not Just For Linux
Although Matrox and most everyone is calling their new erm Linux
driver a Linux driver it is in fact a XFree86 4.01 driver and is not
specific to Linux, it should run on any x86 OS using XFree86 4.01.
Here's the low down from Konstantinos Konstantinidis.

Just a short note to let you know that due to XFree 4's neat module
loader the mga_drv.o binary released is not really a "Linux XFree"
driver, but an "x86 XFree" driver.

I just copied it over my previous mga_drv.o and enjoy the new
features even though I'm using FreeBSD. Basically as long as you use
XFree 4 on a PC it will work, here's a bit about this from the XFree
4 release notes:

 "Since the loader doesn't rely on an operating system's native
 dynamic loader support, it works on platforms that don't provide
 this feature, and makes it possible for the modules to be operating
 system independent (although not, of course, independent of CPU
 architecture). This means that a module compiled on Linux/x86 can be
 loaded by an X server running on Solaris/x86, or FreeBSD, or even
 OS/2."

BTW. XFree 86 4.X is available as Alpha at this site:

  ftp://borneo.gmd.de/pub/misc/XFree86OS2/alpha/ 


 
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