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Re: tlug: nvidia svgalib/X drivers



On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> would it be better to just get the bare specs from nVidia and copy an
> existing svgalib driver, or would it be easier to 'port' the XFree86
> 3.3.2 nVidia driver? 

Copy an existing driver.  The svgalib driver model differs from the
XFree86 model in significant ways (well, the S3 driver sort of looks like
the XFree driver, but IIRC none of the others do).

-- Chris

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