Subject: Re: tga graphic cards
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/14/1999 12:34:15
Ross Harvey wrote:

> I've said it before but once again: we really do need a volunteer
> willing to work on X for NetBSD/alpha. It has always been on my list,
> but has never made it to top priority, so I've never even started work
> on it and I'm not sure if that will ever change. (I always think I can
> start in a month or two, but it's always at .+2.)

I think I've secured a spare AlphaPC164 to look into this a bit more
seriously.  If I recall (without checking up in the archives), the
problems with XFree86 have been "we (NetBSD) don't just want to make the
VGA card look like a PC to XFree like some other Un*x clones do, we want
a nice MI interface"?  Is this a fair summary?

Simon.