Matrox G550 driver source and AMD64

[Adam Jackson]

On Monday 29 November 2004 20:08, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:39:46PM -0700, James Earl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just recently built an AMD64 based system using an Asus A8V Deluxe
> > motherboard and a Matrox G550 graphics card.  I'm running FreeBSD
> > 5.3-RELEASE/amd64.
> >
> > I have a slight issue in that I can't use Matrox's binary drivers any
> > longer now that I'm using FreeBSD amd64.  I did notice that Matrox
> > provides driver source (mgadriver-4.0-src.tar.gz).
> >
> > Would it be possible to integrate this into X.org in future releases so
> > that the mga_hal_drv.o is no longer required to be downloaded from
> > Matrox?
> >
> > ...or, is there anyway that I may be able to learn how to build this
> > mga_hal_drv.o myself if Matrox doesn't allow their sources to be bundled
> > with Xorg?
> >
> > James
>
> Adam Jackson recently attempted to contact Matrox on their license:
> http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=12917
> I believe he was refered to legal at matrox.com by sales, i'm not sure if
> he got a response from legal.

I was referred to legal@ by customer service; I have not heard back from 
legal@ yet, and doubt I will.  But if it's just changes to support a new 
mga_hal then I really don't care.  The forum talk made it sound like there 
was at least one real issue fixed.

The relevant bug, btw, is:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1904

#1903 is the general OEM evangelism bug.  I know we have participants on this 
list from several graphics companies - ATI, nVidia, probably Intel - but 
there are also a few companies who I haven't seen involved in the Xorg 
community at all yet....
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