From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) Subject: Re: Diamond speedstar and X Date: 28 Nov 1992 20:58:57 GMT
Rick Kelly (rmk@rmkhome.UUCP) wrote:
: 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.
Yep, it is this kind of attitude that has convinced me to buy another
brand of modem next time I upgrade. It was such a royal pain in the
ass to get my diamond card to work properly with OS/2. What is
considered the best card for linux users? Preferably, it is a card
that also "plays nice" with OS/2.
Cheers,
Chris