From: plotkin@cs.stanford.edu (Serge A. Plotkin) Subject: Re: HELP Diamond Viper VLB & XFree 1.2 Xconfig Date: 28 Jul 1993 09:04:01
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