From: p00057@mail.psi.net (Ross Sponholtz) Subject: Re: S3 Date: 8 Jul 1992 23:11:47 GMT
>DATE: 9 Jul 92 17:36:07 GMT
>FROM: Stephen Hite <shite@sinkhole.unf.edu>
>
>In article <62790@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
>>Has anyone had any luck making an S3-coprocessed card (like the Stealth)
>>work with X? After looking at the performance of the board in
>>800x600x256 in Windows, I'd be very interested to see what kind of
>>performance I could get for X.
>>--
>>Rob Coleman ][ gt0449a@prism.gatech.edu ][ "I think I'm going bald!"
>>Comp. Sci. ][ Georgia Institute of Technology ][ -Rush/COS
>
> Are the S3 chip specs available from the vendor without paying some
>outrageous $10,000 or so "licensing fee" ??? This is what would keep
>a good free X386 S3 driver from ever coming about. Either that or
>we'd have to wait for some SVGA graphics book to come out and talk about
>the details (i.e. someone else figured it out the hard way or payed the
>big bucks).
>
>Steve Hite
>shite@sinkhole.unf.edu
The S3 specs, some dos disks, and some other documentation are available
from S3 for FREE. You just have to call them up and tell them that
you need the S3 driver development kit. Their number is 408-986-8144.
Their documentation is very good, and their disks include source code
for a usable graphics library.
Ross Sponholtz