From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: public S3 design (Was: Free software and ... Diamond products) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 22:34:31 GMT
In article <1992Oct3.145834.11008@kth.se> d88-jwn@jaws.nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct3.005854.28888@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>> ...
>>I have a working 8514/A server with modifications for the S3 chipset.
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>Does this mean you are using X with an S3-card. I'm about to buy a new card
>and are therefore very interested in this subject.
I am developing an X server for an S3-card. Don't want to mention the
name of the company till I am 100% certain that the card works under
Unix. Under Dos, I wrote a small program to test the graphics and it
seems to initialize the S3 card successfully at least with 640x480 and 256
colors. Also, the program is able to draw rectangles, bitblts, and lines
all using the extendend graphics set in the S3 card. And, no vga banking!
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>I also talked to a person at the company which sells this card. He said the
>card came with a driver for Unix. He just read it from some spec and couldn't
>specify it any more. I will will come back with more info when (if) I get it.
Could you name the company?
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>> ...
>>Amancio Hasty
>--
>/Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))
Amancio Hasty