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From: rcpt@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: X and Diamond Speedstar 24X
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Date: 7 Mar 93 22:16:53 GMT
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scottl@bunsenhoneydew.engin.umich.edu (scott allen long) writes:
>Is it true that Xfree 1.2 won't work with a Diamond Speedstar 24X card (ISA)?
No! Here is why (grep-ed from README in X386/lib/X11/etc):
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NOTE: The Diamond SpeedStar 24 (and possibly recent SpeedStar+) boards
are NOT supported, even though they use the ET4000. The reason
for this is that Diamond has changed the mechanism used to select
pixel clock frequencies, and will only release programming information
under non-disclosure. We are not willing to do this (as it would
mean that source cannot be provided). We have had discussions with
Diamond over this, and they do not intend to change this policy.
Hence we will do nothing to support Diamond products going forward
(i.e. don't send us a program to run set their clocks).
--Piet