Paul Koning said:
> I think it may not be quite that bad. XFree86 supports a fair number
> of chips in their native high resolution modes, which presumably
> indicates that those had data available. As I recall, the C&T chips
> are among those, as are S3, Matrox, and probably other. NeoMagic is a
> notorious exception (there's a binary only XFree86 support piece for
> it, which is rather an ugly compromise but my laptop likes it...)
XF86 does not generally contain sufficient information for all
chipsets to be able to work out how to initialise the device.
This is where the NDA problems come in - the Alpha computers
get around this problem by having an x86 emulator to run the
VGA bios to initialise the graphics card.
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