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  <H2><A NAME="17"></A>8. Driver history</H2>
<p>The complete history of the driver is rather cloudy.
The following is more than likely to be incomplete and inaccurate.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>Then Doug Evans (<i>dje@cygnus.com</i>) 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.</p>
<p>Rik Faith (<i>faith@cs.unc.edu</i>) 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.</p>
<p>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 card.</p>

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