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- From: cummings@hammer.prime.com (Kevin Cummings)
- Subject: Re: FAQ: Yes, the Dimond Stealth works in 1024x768
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.182252.5349@primerd.prime.com>
- Sender: cummings@hammer (Kevin Cummings)
- Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
- References: <crh.723882424@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <SVERKERW.92Dec11051515@meryl.csd.uu.se> <badger.724106648@phylo>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:22:52 GMT
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- In article <badger.724106648@phylo>, badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
- > > My Diamond Stealth works fine with 640x480x256, but I am unable to
- > > get a higher resolution out of it.
- >
- > >Uhoh, the poor wretch is S***t Out of Luck.
- >
- > >The trick of getting the clock freq. right on Diamond Stealth is by
- > >doing some heavy, trade-secret, wizardry that the manufacturer won't
- > >talk about. This means that Linux won't support Diamond Sealth.
- >
- > It is time to clear up this confusion. The Diamond Stealth works fine
- > in 1024x768x256 -- the trick is to run Windows first (in 1024x768). This sets
- > the clocks.
-
- See, I told you someone else besides me has done this!
-
- > What we really need is a program that can set the clocks within Linux. I often
- > think the reason this hasn't been written is philosophical rather than
- > technical. Many people have the absurd belief that writing something like
- > this would send the wrong message to Diamond that their policies are OK.
- > Diamond's policies are bad, I agree. But I can assure you that they could
- > not care less about the very small Linux user base -- refusing to support
- > their cards is NOT going to bring about a change.
-
- I've got Frank Klemm's code. When I get some time (I'm taking two weeks
- vacation starting next week, that should be enough!) I'll try it out and see
- what happens!
-
- > Telling us "sell your Stealth" is obviously a pretty unrealistic solution.
- > Most of us can't afford to sell hardware every thirty seconds when some
- > piece of software or another doesn't support it.
-
- Agreed. I guess the really surprising part is that while other vendors
- are following up their S3 86C911 based cards with other S3 based follow-ons
- (either 928 based or 801 based) Diamond seems to have switched teams
- with their SS24X by going to Western Digital. I'm not hearing much
- about the Stealth-24 anymore. Does it exist? Are there any others coming?
- Does anyone care? Ooops, I guess not. Sorry.
-
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