Subject: Re: aperture driver?
To: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/29/1998 17:51:52
If anyone want it, you can grab the aperture driver from:

	ftp://ftp.whooppee.com/pub/aperture.tgz

This is the km that I'm using on my (nearly)-current NetBSD/i386


On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Brad Spencer wrote:

> 
>    Chris Jones writes:
>    > Can anybody tell me where to find the source for the aperture driver?
> 
>    Why do you want it?
> 
>    1) It won't increase your security.
>    2) If you want to run XFree, just set options "INSECURE" in your
>    kernel.
> 
>    .pm
> 
> 
> In particular, because some of the X servers need it.  The ATI Mach64 one,
> for example.  Apparently, others can get some benefit from it.  This was
> certainly true in the near past and I presume is still true.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org   http://anduin.eldar.org
> [finger brad@anduin.eldar.org for PGP public key]
> 
> 

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