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- From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
- Subject: Re: Warning about Diamond Speedstar 24
- In-Reply-To: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu's message of 22 Jul 92 04:31:22 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.043122.10523@sinkhole.unf.edu>
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- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:31:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.133104.18681@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- > I recently ordered a Diamond Speedstar HIColor and the manual called it
- >the Diamond Speedstar 24. Are these the same card? If so, then they've
- >changed something since the beginning of '92 because you can't get the
- >dot clocks so X386 can set your monitor into modes about 640x480.
- >This is because X386 1.2E reports:
- >
- > 25 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 (the 13 may be a 12, forgot)
- >
- >The report in the mode X386 database gives dot clock values for the
- >Diamond Speedstar HIColor but I'm thinking this person had an older
- >card that didn't have these programmable dot clocks (VCO chip???)
-
- Diamond has a new programmable PLL syntesizer on the newer board. The
- Stealth VRAM BIOS Rev 2.0 and newer are examples of these cards. You
- have to programm this chip before it will give you a new frequency
- output besides those two standard clocks.
-
- - Thomas
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