[Tfug] xorg in debian unstable

[Ron Sandel]

t takahashi wrote:

>do you mean that compiling actually works with matrox's code?  if so,
>that is good.  i would have guessed that either there would be no
>source code for the proprietary modules or compiling would work about
>as well as their install script (i.e. not).
>
>if so, though, then why isn't the dvi-capable mga driver available in
>non-free?  just nobody got around to it?
>
The way it is works, which you probably know, is there is mga_drv.o and 
mga_hal_drv.o.  The source code for mga_drv is open source, but 
mga_hal_drv.o is based on a closed source .a library.  So if you go to 
matrox.com and look on their forums, there are instructions on how to 
stick the .a library into an X source tree and get it to compile a hal 
driver.  It's possible but i'm not sure w/o looking at a file listing 
that the hal is included with debian's X, but I doubt it.  But matrox 
does specify that anyone can distribute the .a library no strings attached.

Ron