On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> John Grange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > New Beta Matrox Linux Drivers For X 4.0.1
> >
> > don't know if you guys cought this but here's the heads up;)
> >
> > they provide lots of new fetures but mostly they up the clock to the
> > production level (ie windows clock speed)
>
> OpenSource ???
This is a section of the readme.txt for the driver :
...
This driver is based on the open source development being done within the
XFree86 Project. The driver remains unmodified, with the exception of the
display adapter initialization, which has been replaced with a closed
source Matrox library. This special library enables features such as
DualHead, TV out, and support for digital flat panel monitors.
Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of intellectual
property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the library and prohibits
reverse engineering but allows free distribution under any operating system.
Matrox encourages members of the open source community to freely distribute
and assist in the further development of this driver.
...
So not OpenSource.
Sebastian Vuorinen
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