What is the history of the driver?

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## 5. What is the history of the driver?

The complete history of the driver is rather cloudy. The following is probably incomplete and inaccurate.

Apparently, Per Lindqvist (pgd@compuram.bbt.se) first got an ATI driver working with an early ATI card under X386 1.1a. This original driver may have actually been based on an non-functional ATI driver written by Roell. Then Doug Evans (dje@cygnus.com) ported the driver to the ATI VGA Wonder XL, trying in the process to make the driver work with all other ATI cards.

Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) 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 the driver over in the fall of 1993 after Rik got rid of his VGA Wonder card.

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