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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Please post again Message-ID: <CE0yG7.EDG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Followup-To: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 18:09:42 GMT Lines: 32 Hi, Recently I read an article on the 386bsd newsgroups about how to get Diamond graphics cards to work with XFree 86. I was wondering if whomever was good enough to post it the first time could either post it again or mail me a copy of what you posted. It could really help me out. Basically what I am looking for the clock setting program for use in the Xconfig file. I recently contacted Diamond and they gave me permission to ask and copy such a program from anyone who had one avaliable. They also told me that if I could come up with a program to do what we need, they would allow it to be distributed freely. They claim that the ET4000 is no longer any sort of a secret so they don't care about people knowing how the clock is set. Although I found the Diamond SS product manager to be somewhat evasive at first, he did understand my dilmema at once. After explaining the point behind free *nix (actually I don't know what that is myself, but I made it sound good), and what sort of PR they were getting on the internet (bad), he sent me all the information on the card I could ever want WITHOUT signing a nondisclosure agreement. He said that I could use the information in a quiet fashion on the newsgroups and asked me to contact him if we seriously wanted to distribute the resulting code. I have been unable to get the clock to set correctly from C, however. I am sure someone else better than I has solved this problem already. I you could help me out this would be GREAT. Perhaps with a little bit of proof that Diamond will really let this go this code could be worked in to the XFree 86 2.0 release? Jim