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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86, XS3 Mouse configuration
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.163156.3958@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec17.175453.29962@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec18.051723.26180@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.103520.4811@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:31:56 GMT
- Lines: 78
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- In article <1992Dec18.103520.4811@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) writes:
- >>I am the author of XS3. Please send me your Xconfig and relax because
- >>we fixed this bug for XFree86 and ported XFree86 to 386bsd.
- >
- >Sorry, but I cannot stand this way your talking about this stuff
- >anymore. You always tell people you did EVERYTHING about the XS3
- >server. This is one of the greatest lies I ever heard ! Your S3 stuff
- >is COMPLETLY based up the 8514/A server Kevin Martin did. The S3 chips
- >are with the exception of ONE registers in the graphics engine
- >IDETICAL to the 8514/A (at least with respect of what the 8514/A
- >server actually uses). Hence all of the drawing code is from somebody
- >else, whome you generally forget to name. Also the setup code putting
- >the S3 into graphics mode is stolen for the X386 1.2 / Xfree server
- >(which then again IS stock X11R5) where this code is for SVGAs.
- >
- >Hence please stop people make believe that you really did everything
- >from scratch. I don't want to put you down, but make it clear for the
- >people how things really took place (and in fact it took me only about
- >ONE day to get a S3 server from a 8514/A server in our commercial
- >stuff; just to bias people a little bit). If you want to do PD stuff,
- >please give credit to the people who deserve it. And that's Kevin
- >Martin, and not really you.
- >
- >- Thomas
- >
- >--
-
- Good Morning Thomas:
-
- The second or third line of my README file for XS3 reads:
-
- "The S3 server is based upon Kevin Martin's IBM 8514/a server."
-
- The second or third paragraph of my README files give credit to
- Phil Richards and Jon Tombs for their work. Also for the record
- David Greeman build, tested and by inclusing of the new math library
- eliminated all x11perf floating point errors. something that XFree86
- still has a problem with under 386bsd.
-
-
- There are more than two registers differences between the 8514/a and
- the S3. For instance, I wrote the vga banking method, and Jon was kind
- and smart to significanlty improve upon it. The 8514/a server does
- not do vga banking.
-
- I was the first one in the public domain to figure out how to successfully
- initialize the S3. No one and I mean no one help me out to decode the S3.
- It was sweat and hardwork.
-
- My new caching code is different and I am the only one doing it.
-
- I hammered out the code for the 801/805 no one not even you had an 801
- working yet. It was small amount of work but with the amount of documentation
- which I received from S3 it was hard work.
-
- I am the only one under 386bsd developing and supporting XS3.
-
-
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Das Reh springt hoch, e-mail: roell@sgcs.com
- >das Reh springt weit, #include <sys/pizza.h>
- >was soll es tun, es hat ja Zeit ...
-
-
-
- :-) This is a live message brought to you by X S 3 V L B :-)
-
- With respect,
- Amancio Hasty
-
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