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From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree and Diamond Speedstar 24X
In-Reply-To: pmartin@eniac.san.uc.edu's message of Wed, 2 Dec 1992 01: 57:57 GMT
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Paul, the problem is that Xfree86 does not support any Diamond card
designed after the Diamond Speedstar+. This is due to an unusual policy
(among SVGA vendors) of Diamond to keep from submitting technical
details on programming the clock synthesizer without a non-disclosure
agreement. Since XFree86 is distributed in source form this won't work.
Until Diamond changes it's policies XFree86 will ignore their products
and concentrate on other vendor's products for which the source can be
distributed without any question.

Xfree86 encourages people wishing to use the server on Diamond products
to call their local sales representative and ask for a programmers
guide. 

-Jim.
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