From: wkee@hydra.acs.uci.edu (William Kee) Subject: Re: HELP Diamond Viper VLB & XFree 1.2 Xconfig Date: 1 Aug 1993 03:25:09 GMT
In article <PLOTKIN.93Jul28090401@Troll.stanford.edu> plotkin@cs.stanford.edu (Serge A. Plotkin) writes:
> In article <31850001@c260769amsr.hp.com> jsemroc@c260769amsr.hp.com writes:
> >I am desperate! I have been unsucessfully trying to get XFree1.2 running.
> >My situation is this... I have a Dimond Viper VLB video card (I know how well
> >respected Diamond is in the XFree community :-\ ). I would like to ask that
> >anyone who has been able to get Xfree running with the Viper VLB video card
> >please share your Xconfig file and any other information.
> >
> No one can help you with that graphics board right now. The VIPER uses the
> P9000 chipset that is no svga chipset. XFree86 does not support that chipset
> by now (release 1.3) and will not support it in the next release.
> Sorry, but this is a much greater problem than the board beeing built by diamond.
>
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeff Semroc
> >
> >please e-mail to:
> >jsemroc@pmshp6.pms.ford.com
> >
> Helmut Geyer
>
>
>
>It seems that the best one can currently do is to get XFree 1.3 and run
>it in mono mode 800x600, using the "freq" program in the diamond.gz
>package.
>
>-serge
I HAD a Diamond Viper VLB, but I returned it and got something else.
With the Diamond VIper VLB, I could not install Linux with the card
installed. The installation would freeze on the A2 disk. This freezing
was random. I was wondering if anyone has encountered this problem
before.
-Bill