From: jrowland@cs.utexas.edu (John Richards Rowland) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: 7 Sep 1992 00:38:24 -0500
I dont see the problem here. I use bios calls to set the clocks.
By observation, I can determine what clock settings each bios call
sets the PLL to. Just before Xfree86 starts, I take it apon myself
to make that bios call, and the bios sets the clock values to what I need.
For example:
When I boot my linux system I always remember to choose the text mode
100x40 in the selection list because I know that setting that text mode also
sets the clocks to what I want for my chosen resolution. This type of
trickery is uncomfortable, but it does allow me to use X on my Diamond
Speedstar24 using bios 5.X.
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