From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 12:15:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15807 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15800 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA20070; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:12:02 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970219121436.009a2e70@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:14:37 -0800 To: Prisoner From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: XFree86 and Diamond Speedstar Pro Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:38 AM 2/19/97 -0600, you wrote: >> I never use Diamond (or any video card sporting the cirrus logic chipset) >> Too many woes with that card. Run away from CL video cards like the plague. >> I try to use ATI when I can. I've always had good success with ATI cards. > Diamonds, at least the ones I've used, use the S3 chipset, and work >beautifully. Hmm, thats interesting. I'm quite sure the cards I had problems with were using CL chipsets. I know becuase now whenever I shop for graphics addapters I always open the box and check them for CL chips, no matter what the card brand. If Diamond cards are using s3, that certainly wouldn't be a problem. I like s3's as well. One peice missing is that my bad experiences with Diamond were in the VL-Bus days. Prehaps they've come around to s3 chips now that everything is pci. -Tim