From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) Subject: Re: Diamond, X11, and dos Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 14:22:14 GMT
danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>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
Point well taken, but there ar now so many different Diamond cards that I
cannot keep all the differences straight. I even recommended the purchase
of graphics lab full of machines with the old Speedstar cards before Diamond
decided to start playing games against their users.
>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.
The volume has simply become intolerable. This may have caused me to be
excessively intemperate. I fully reaffirm my intemperance, but maybe not
some of its excess.
>Regards,
>Joe Pannon