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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.byu.edu!ns.novell.com!gateway.univel.com!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: X-windows & Diamond VLB Message-ID: <1993Jul15.204428.6502@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <CA6rDw.54H@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <CA6rrE.5pK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 20:44:28 GMT Lines: 45 In article <CA6rrE.5pK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ldv@anaconda.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Vaught) writes: >My news poster cut off part my posting for some odd reason.. sorry >about that. > >I'm running 386bsd on a 486 box, with a Diamond Viper VLB Accelerator >Card, and I'm looking for an X-windows distribution that I can run >on my machine. > >I read through the FAQ for XFree86, and it claims that it won't >support my card due to trade secrets and non disclosure. They're >afraid that Diamond Computer Systems will file legal action against >them. > >I'm beginning to lose hope. I have a quality graphics card, and it >seems to be all but unusable. I'm open to any suggestions as to how >I can get X up and running on my machine. > >Email is preferred, since I don't really follow this group. Thanks. I will cc this to the sender, but in case anyone else is interested, the following comp.unix.bsd articles should be of interest to Diamond card owners. Obviously, youu will have to go to a news archive (see the FAQ) for most or all of these. Sorry that I can't repost or mail them myself, but I just have the references: Subject: ## Info about the Diamond Pixel Clock Synthesizer Message-ID: <1992Nov02.185531.13576@rz.uni-jena.de> Subject: How to set the diamond clock ... Message-ID: <4356bw@gotham.city> Subject: Re: ## Info about the Diamond Pixel Clock Synthesizer Message-ID: <1992Nov4.100208.3900@labtam.labtam.oz.au> Subject: driver mods for Diamond 24x (WD90C31) Message-ID: <1lnb3oINNf0e@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.