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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 1996 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Andy Lemay <guilt@earthlink.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Generic (or not) SVGA drivers for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960628015939.330J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31D36CE1.4654@earthlink.net>

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On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Andy Lemay wrote:

> Hello there. A friend of mine recently installed FreeBSD on his 
> computer.  Previous to this, he had obtained a Diamond Viper PCI video 
> card.  Right now, he's stuck in 320x200 resolution because he doesn't 
> have a driver/port (?) that can impliment the SVGA capabilities of his 
> graphics card.  He asked me to write this letter because he is having 
> some difficulties getting online (not relating to FreeBSD).  Any info 
> you could provide me/my friend about getting support for his graphics 
> card would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

You must mean XFree86.  

You want to get your friend the S3 X server.  That will take full 
advantage of his Diamond and get him to the higher resolutions and bit 
depths.  Plus it'll be loads faster.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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