Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 11:51:00 cdt From: "McKinley, Rob" <mckinley@spss.com> To: Andy Lemay <guilt@earthlink.net> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Generic (or not) SVGA drivers for FreeBSD Message-ID: <31D40D88@msmailgw.spss.com>
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The viper is based on the Weitek P9000 chip. You'll need to get the p9k server, not the S3 server. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob McKinley ! Interim Release: SPSS Inc. ! A programmer's feeble attempt at repentance. 312-329-3661 ! mckinley@spss.com ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- From: Doug White[SMTP:dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 1996 2:00 AM To: Andy Lemay Cc: questions Subject: Re: Generic (or not) SVGA drivers for FreeBSD 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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