From: arthur@ptt-iat.uucp (Arthur Donkers) Subject: Re: HELP!! Diamond Speedstar Hicolor and X Date: 3 Sep 1993 09:33:00 +0200
In article <moss.746986068@butternut.cs.scarolina.edu> moss@cs.scarolina.edu (James Moss) writes:
>cyber@salyko.cube.net (Sabine Artinger) writes:
>
>>Hiya,
>
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>You might have a bit of a problem. Last time I checked (about a month
>ago) Diamond cards are not and cannot be supported by Linux because of
>management decisions at Diamond. I assume you have gotten it up and
>running at 640x480. That's basic VGA, and most cards support it the
>exact same way, but above that it becomes different, and different cards
>don't act the same way.
>
Not quite true. I'm currently using a Diamond Speedstar PRO/ISA (the one
with the GDC5426 chipset), and it works great under Xfree86 1.3 on
Linux p12. Without tweaking the clock programming whatsoever.
My Xfree is a plain 1.2 with the color server and shlibs replaced by the
one's from 1. (still waiting for my Jana CD to completely install 1.3 :-( ).
It takes more than the 640x480 resolution too. I can use it up to 1152x865,
this depends a bit on the monitor however, 1152x900 complains about to little
memory on the board to support this resolution.
Even returning to text mode from different resolutions work good. BTW the
revision level of the BIOS on the Speedstar is 2.04.
Please note that I'm not supporting or approving of Diamond's policy in any
way, but in this case it works (and fast too).
Just my $0.02,
Arthur
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