From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 20:49:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA10127 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:49:00 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA10119 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:48:40 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04936; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:46:33 +0800 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:46:31 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: David Michael Holloway cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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