Driver history

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## 9. Driver history

The complete history of the driver is rather cloudy. The following is more than likely to be incomplete and inaccurate.

Apparently, Per Lindqvist first got a driver working with an early ATI adapter under X386 1.1a. This original driver might have actually been based on a non-functional ATI driver written by Thomas Roell (currently of Xi Graphics).

Then Doug Evans (dje@cygnus.com) added support for the ATI VGA Wonder XL, trying in the process to make the driver work with all other ATI adapters available at the time.

Rik Faith (faith@precisioninsight.com) obtained the X11R4 driver from Doug Evans in the summer of 1992 and ported the code to the X386 part of X11R5. This subsequently became part of XFree86.

I (Marc Aurele La France) took over development and maintenance of the driver in the fall of 1993 after Rik got rid of his VGA Wonder adapter.

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