Subject: Re: Diamond speedstar and X From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1992 05:44:15 GMT
In article <1992Nov26.161434@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be> stud15@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Peter Janssen) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I have a question about the diamond speedstar card, I read the FAQ
>and it says that Diamond card are not supported and will not be supported
>for X, I wonder why. I thought the Diamonds Speedstar was a video-card
>based on the ET4000-chip set. So why shouldn't it work, since ET4000 cards
>are supported.
Diamond uses a proprietary clocking scheme on both the Speedstar and Stealth
cards. They want non-disclosure agreements, etc before telling you how it
all works.
How anal-retentive are they?
Well, I have the spec sheet here for UNIX SVR4.2 from UNIVEL. Among all
the specs and marketing hype they give you a _long_ list of graphics cards
that they support. They support everything from HGA and EGA up to all the
latest SVGA cards. Diamond is conspicuous by their absence.
It would appear that Diamond feels that they make enough money from selling
cards for MSDOS Windows, and screw everybody else.
--Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP