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- From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:55:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com>
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- References: <1992Sep09.203305.18082@digibd.com> <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep11.124831.10108@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Sep11.124831.10108@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
- >
- >| Well, one of the responses to our Diamond mail survey was from Rick Kemp
- >| at SCO. I quote:
- >|
- >| We have no plans on supporting their cards at anything but
- >| 640x480 resolution. They have refused to tell us how their
- >| cards work, and we have told all of our distributors to
- >| discontinue carrying them (Gateway 2000 and Zeos).
- >|
- >| So we'll see. The fact that SCO is having trouble doesn't bode well
- >| for our winning this battle.
- >
- > Interesting, since SCO has a stealth X driver in their directory on
- >uunet. I have very little information about it beyond that.
- >--
- The solution for the support of X/Windows in the Freeware arena or
- any other arena would be to design a VESA based driver for these
- software packages. It would greatly simplify the need to design
- specific drivers for specific cards. Granted the VESA drivers may not
- take advantage of the hardware specific to the card; but, there would
- still be a driver available until someone changes their minds.
- How difficult would it be to support a VESA based driver under Unix?
- This would be a place to start.
-
-
- The problems with the support arose with the Speedstar 24X and Diamonds
- proprietary technology used on the card. The Speedstar and Stealth
- are both supported by ODT 1.x and 2.x now. The generic TSENG drivers
- , I am told should work for the Speedstar (ET4000) based card.
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