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From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts)
Subject: Re: X-Windows support for VGA boards
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In article <1993Oct21.174347.20873@imagen.com> rturner@jrtipc.aqm.com writes:
>
>Is there a current list of VGA hardware that is supported by XFree86...
>
>specifically, with all the ads for the new hot VGA accelerator boards such
>as the diamond viper, and all the VL-bus boards, I was wondering if the
>X-server for 386BSD could take advantage of this.....(?)

Stay -far- away from Diamond products.  They are poison.

					Jim

P.S.  I am still working on a clock setting program since there does not
seem to be a single soul out there willing to share (or that has one
of these Diamond cards).		;)