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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!tandem!pacbell.com!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: XFree86 and Speedstar 24X (again!) Organization: AT&T Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 17:25:56 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar10.172556.24533@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1nkdc5INNdt8@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Lines: 24 In article <1nkdc5INNdt8@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> scottl@waldorf.engin.umich.edu (scott allen long) writes: > > I know that XFree86 won't run on a Diamond Speedstar 24X because > of the proprietary clock interface, but suppose I was able to > wrench this info from Diamond (under non-disclosure, of course). > Would it be possible to run XFree86 then? The card uses the > new WD90C31 chip. I'd be happy to get it running, even if it > didn't use the accelerated features of the chip (like the Tseng > patches). Any comments would be greatly appreciated! > > -sl > Yes, it will work if you do this. There are still a few bugs in the WD driver dealing with the WD90C30 and 90C31, but it does work. We will ahve the bugs fixed for XFree86 1.2.1 (now that we have a couple people with non-Diamond WD90C3x boards working on it). -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky. They stand there." -- Yes, Roundabout