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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