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Re: Metro-X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Tue Nov 5 11:38:55 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 09:11:23 MST."
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 11:36:08 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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> Bill> You are not doing anything wrong! Diamond does not fully support
> Bill> the card under Xwindows. Much thanks to Donnie Barnes. I took his
> Bill> recommendation and scrapped my Diamond for a Number Nine 771 with
> Bill> 4mb VRAM. Now, that's the only card I use. It is in 10 RHL Linux
> Bill> Servers I have. I could only get my Diamond to work with Xfree,
> Bill> and only in 400x600--no virtual! Do yourself a favor, monetary
> Bill> funds provided, and get a Number Nine 771! You can locate
> Bill> Diamond's home page on the net, they will explain, in a
> Bill> roundabout way, that some of their cards are not fully supported
> Bill> under Xwindows. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I suppose this
> Bill> didn't help you too much. Sorry.
>
> I'm running my Stealth 64 Video with 4MB of ram right now. It runs at
> all the 4MB modes (16-bit in 1280x1024, for example), handles the
> virtual screens, etc. I've been running this fine with Xfree86 since
> Slackware 3.0! So, I don't know why you had those problems with
> Diamond, but this has certainly worked great for me. Glad the Number9
> works for you!
The biggest problem is that Diamond is *known* to change the underlying
architecture of their cards and keep the name the *same*. You guys could
have two different cards...one supported, one not. I'm not sure this is
the case here, but it does happen and is yet another reason to avoid
Diamond for me.
--Donnie
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