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To: damniseedemons who wrote (22486)	1/25/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

A plea for Netscape help: I can't find any address any more at netscape for something like techsupport@netscape.com. They no longer answer the info@ traditional address. I am trying to find out how to disable all that netcenter stuff that is making my email a miserable experience. I just want to take two secs to see what I have coming in? No good, have to wait for the overloaded netcenter to download all kinds of crap to me to present on the first page before I can see my email. There's no place to complain about this to them any more. No more @feedback link. No evidence of any support other than for pay plans and generic FAQs. So how about it? How to disable that Netscape Netcenter (or whatever it's called) page download that sometimes makes my email time out, it takes so long? I just want to see my subject lines and sign off, usually. Chaz

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22486)	1/25/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Marcelo Magnasco	Respond to of 24154

Sal remembers quite correctly the situation a year ago or so: My understanding was that NeoMagic wouldn't release specs or anything and wasn't allowing for Linux drivers Yup, but you see, they do have to provide drivers for their chips for W95/98, right? So these drivers can be disassembled and reverse engineered... they are already releasing the specs, only not in human-readable form. It's a stupid loss of time to have to disassemble a neomagic w98 driver in order to figure out the specs, but obviously you can do it. Then I think someone signed them an ND and wrote a driver for XFree, which was then distributed as binary. XFree wouldn't distribute it themselves, since it wasn't open source. Now I don't know what happened, but you do get NeoM drivers with XFree, and I think you do get source for them. Can check if you want to, but the take home is that the game is over and Neomagic is fully supported under XFree. AcceleratedX, of course, has had NM support like forever, but then it's $$$. m