From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) Subject: Re: Diamond, X11, and dos Date: 9 Feb 1993 03:37:22 GMT
In article <ellis.729105729@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes
to Diego::
> If you had spent two weeks you would have even seen a detailed
>philosophical discussion of why the newer Diamond cards are not supported.
Now hold your horses, professor! Did Diego write in his message that he
had one of the NEWER Diamond cards? It so happens, there are plenty of
older Diamond SpeedStar Plus cards out there that work just fine with
Xfree, thank you! I am running one right now. Have no problem
switching among the three supported non-interlaced resolutions.
Anybody who has bought his/her Gateway 2000 486/33C at around the end of
1991 is likely to have an "older" SpeedStar Plus and that wasn't such a
long time ago.
So, let's not assume automatically one of the non-supported "newer"
cards as soon as somebody utters the word "Diamond". Otherwise I agree
with the rest of your message: follow this news group for a while before
jumping in with your question. Or if you don't want to wait, at least
search the messages back a few hundred to see if you find your answer
there. Otherwise none of us can follow this volume of msg traffic in a
sustained basis.
Regards,
Joe Pannon