From: blee@halon.dfrf.nasa.gov (Bryson Lee) Subject: Diamond SVGA Cards Date: 29 Sep 1992 00:09:47 GMT
I don't mean to reopen any festering sores with this post, but I'm hoping to
get some info that I think came out here a while back. After failing to get
a TsengLabs VGA Mentor card to work reliably with my PC (either under DOS or
Linux), I have purchased a Diamond Speedstar Plus w/512K. Considering some of
the discussions about that vendor in the last few weeks, I had reservations,
but the price was right and the return policy excellent.
Anyway, the card seemed to work a treat after I installed it and fired up
Linux (the SLS 0.96c_pl2 variety, BTW). It did X at 640x480 physical (800x600
virtual) with no problems. However, once I rebooted into DOS to check
operation there and then went back to Linux, the server would hang during
startup and force me to reboot the machine. If I then went back and tried to
run at a virtual resolution higher than the card would support, let it fail,
and tried again at 800x600, things once again worked fine. I guess this
problem is related to clocks on the card, but I'm not sure.
If someone could mail me a recap of the problems with Diamond ET4000 cards, it
would help me decide if I should write this one off and try another vendor,
or live within this card's limitations.
Thanks in advance,
Bryson Lee
blee@halon.dfrf.nasa.gov