From: Chris Newbold (newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com)
Date: 06/21/92


From: newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold)
Subject: Re: setting up X with Diamond Stealth + Nanao 9080i
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1992 22:02:02 GMT

In article <601@zok.sgcs.com> roell@sgcs.com (Thomas Roell) writes:
>Sorry, but a Diamond Stealth will not work with the X386 you can get on
>Linox. It does only support reasonable fast SVGAs. The Stealth is a S3 86C911
>based accelerated VGA, and hence not supported. Note that commecrial versions
>of X386 do support this chipset.

Is anybody working on an S3 driver for the Linux X386??? If not, how difficult
a proposition is this (given S3 docs, etc)? I would be willing to try and get a
rough driver going if it isn't an insurmountable task.

-Chris

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