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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:34308 comp.unix.bsd:7063 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!think.com!ames!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer Message-ID: <1992Oct25.034615.5298@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Oct19.082420.16353@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Oct19.151409.24581@osf.org> <1992Oct24.181837.19994@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 03:46:15 GMT Lines: 60 roell writes: >Ok, folks here are again my basic thoughts. Maybe some people have >misread >them, or I was simply miswording them: > >1) I don not appreaciate in any way that Diamond keeps this thing > about the clock propreterian. On the other hand I do respect > Diamonds decision to not give the details away to the public. > >2) I am opposed to the talk going on about Diamond beeing the > bad guys, and everybody else beeing good. I truely believe that STB > is giving away the info about the PLL only cause Diamond isn't. > Kind of little childs behaviour. But's that's my personal opinion, > which might be wrong. I also cannot understand the talk about not > buying diamon products. That's rediculus. Just because they didn't > give you ALL the details ? Some examples here: I can give you a solid example of why I don't want the diamond stealth: without the ability to set the dot clock an X server is pretty much useless. People should know about this, specially when they spend $300 (US) for the card. > - ATI doesn't give you infos about the NON 8514/A registers on > their boards, without letting you sign an agreenment. No one in the public domain has an X server for the ATI machine. > > - The i486 has some chiptesting opcodes which you only get > under a strict NDA. So far 386BSD and X does not require the above instructions I do think that the net is doing a favor to Diamond by attempting to solve Diamond's stupid policy. I simply took my Stealth back and got myself a couple of cards that I could program without a lot of hazzles from the vendors. So people why bother with buying Diamond? Enjoy X on other svga cards like Orchid or Actix, today! Roell, tnks for your code! A few of us are capable of either getting the algorithm or writing the code. No, I am not going to do it because I am not interested in helping Diamond. And for the matter of hackers burning up their equipment thats up to them after all they purchase it. Lastly, I am not benefiting from my work in any financial way, and I am not going follow this thread any more, I am going to keep hacking on my S3 cards. Amancio Hasty