Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:46:31 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: David Michael Holloway <daveh@uclink.berkeley.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950824112629.4215G-100000@aries> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9508230956.A3404-0100000@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, 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.
There was some support for Diamond cards in 3.1.1 and a lot more
in 3.1.2. Diamond relented and disclosed some of the firmware entry
points or driver hook locations (or somesuch techie nonsense ;-)) to
their cards. From the 3.1.2 README:
| Note: The Diamond SpeedStar 24 (and possibly recent SpeedStar+) boards
| are NOT supported, even though they use the ET4000. The Stealth 32
| which uses the ET4000/W32p is also not fully supported. The Weitek
| 9100 and 9130 chipsets are not supported (these are used on the
| Diamond Viper Pro and Viper SE boards). Most other Diamond boards
| will work with this release of XFree86. Diamond is now actively
| supporting The XFree86 Project, Inc.
Grab the X312doc.tgz tarball and scan through the README's for
mention of Diamond support. It looks like most of the S3-based
Diamond Stealth 64's are supported now.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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