Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 21:57:07 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Piotr Piesik <piesik@cs.put.poznan.pl> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with 4 MB VRAM Diamond Stealth Message-ID: <199607100457.VAA20387@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 10 Jul 96 03:11:37 %2B0200. <199607100111.DAA00691@arrakis.cs.put.poznan.pl>
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>I have a 4 MB VRAM Diamond Stealth (2 MB on board and 2 MB expansion
>from Kingston, designed for Diamond Stealth VRAM).
>
>All possible 2MB or less video modes (for example 1024x768x64k)
>are working fine. But all 4MB modes (for example 1024x768x16M
>or 1280x1024x64k) are not.
I think you need the latest beta of XFree86 for that card. The list
of supported cards should have come with your XFree86 distribution.
If that isn't the case, I would suspect your memory expansion. My
card with 4MB from the factory works just fine (see below).
>This hardware works correctly under Windoze.
>Does anyone have a solution?
>Or at least any experience with other 4 MB cards, especially
>ATI Mach64?
I am using a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM 4MB PCI. Mine came from
the factory with 4MB. Otherwise, I believe it should be identical to
yours. Mine works perfectly under Windows 95, Windows NT (4.0), and
Descent 2. :-) I have not tried to run *BSD or XFree86 on it.
I find it to be an excellent video board. ATI makes good stuff, too,
but I don't think the Mach64 is quite as fast as this card.
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