From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 13:38:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20633 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:38:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20621 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25938; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:37:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:37:50 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: Tim Oneil cc: Prisoner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and Diamond Speedstar Pro In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970219121436.009a2e70@visigenic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > 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 Diamond has never had a lot of dedication to any one chipset. They started off with ET4000, then did some S3 and CL chipset video cards, before coming out with a PCI card. The Diamond Stealths are mostly S3, the Diamond Spider is CL. Oh, and now they've got a card or two based on the ARK chipsets. All my PCI video cards (1 (Trio64, 2 868's, and one Virge/SGRAM) are Diamond, though that's coincidence, I'm more loyal to S3 than Diamond.