From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 09:59:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA12976 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:59:29 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA12939 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:58:01 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26567; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:57:55 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA19730 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:57:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA18128 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:57:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508231657.SAA18128@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:57:26 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "David Michael Holloway" at Aug 23, 95 09:37:25 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 646 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Michael Holloway wrote: > > I am just checking but, so correct me if I am wrong, > but aren't Diamond Stealth cards mostly incompatible > with XFree86? because I saw an add in Computer Currents > about a Linux system, that came with a Diamond Stealth. Only the old Diamonds. The newer (S3-based) are occasionally supported, depending on the chipset, RAMDAC and clockchip. Diamond has the habit of totally revamping the hardware base of their boards without bothering to change the name... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)