----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Trezentos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Gustavo Carvalho Homem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:52 AM
Subject: Informations request (development team)
> Can you please forward this email to someone responsible for XFree
> development? Thank you.
>
> ---------------------------
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I am a Assistant Professor of a Portuguese University (Lisbon University
> - ISCT) and Senior Researcher at a R&D center.
> We are developing a distribution (http://www.caixamagica.org) for the
> portuguese state department of education, aiming to be used at public
> high schools.
> One part of the team is specific working wit XFree frame buffer, in
> order to have a graphic type of installation.
> The team is facing some doubts. Can you please give us some clues?
> Gustavo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pointed out the main questions arised
> during the development (see the end of the mail).
> All the code and documentation produced in the project is available
> under GPL.
We are NOT licensed under the GPL. Our correct name is XFree86; our web
domain is
www.xfree86.org. This has been forwarded to our open list at Xpert since no
where do you
mention any intention of donating anything back to the project.
> ---------------
> Thank you for your help.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> Hello all:
>
> I'll start with a classic: "congratulations for the great work". As a
> developer of CaixaMagica, the first Portuguese Linux distribution I
> would
> like to request some informations regarding the XFree project which is
> not
> available in www.xfree.org and would be extremely useful for our work
> (installing procedure for example). We guess that people in the other
> distros
> might have these knowledge but still couldn't find any related
> resources. We
> lack the necessary information to answer the following questions:
>
> i) Since framebuffer based X servers should run on every Vesa 2.0
> compatible
> card, where can one find a list of such cards ?
>
> ii) How do we compare XF86_FBDev 3.3.6 with XFree 4.1 server using the
> fbdev
> driver which is available according the documentation found on
> www.xfree.org ?
> Which one has better support ? What other reasoning can influence the
> decision
> ?
>
> iii) What XFree86 drivers have XVideo extension implementation by now?
> The
> support classification in the driver status document is not detailed
> engouth
> (accelerated/non-accelerated). The XVideo extension is very important.
>
> Besides this one can build a list of XFree 4.1 supported cards by
> visiting
> every link in the driver status document, but it would be useful if you
> could
> publish a plain list just as you did for XFree 3.3.6.
>
> Keep up the good work
> Best regards
>
> > Gustavo Homem
>
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