In article <1992Aug14.171832.23483@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
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>anyone got this to work with X under Linux????
Yes.
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>And also, is it true that the Diamond Stealth card won't work 'cuz
>it has that new S3 chip???
Yes. There is currently no freely available S3 driver for X386. However,
some of the Linux crew are working on one. When available, it will probably
be folded into the X386 1.2 sources.
The folks making the S3 are very friendly, and distribute accurate
doccumentation on their chips, for free. Consequently, the S3 will be
supported some time in the forseable future, x386 users will have
an option for high speed graphics (I've seen X on a '486 running
with the commercial S3 server. VERY fast. Very similiar to a
fast RISC workstation, like an HP snake), S3 vendors will have
a new market, and every body will win.
Colorado Memory Systems should take note of this - to the emerging
free Unix market, and users of BSDI's product, many of their
products are absolutely worthless, as they refuse to provide
hardware documentation to anyone.
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Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but neither is as bad as AT&T. Boycott AT&T, and let them know how you feel.
