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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!CS.Arizona.EDU!news.Arizona.EDU!helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu!hillm From: hillm@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Michael J Hill) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Sorry to ask, Diamond Stealth 64 Date: 20 Oct 1994 16:57:35 GMT Organization: University of Arizona, Unix Users Group Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3867hv$kqm@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> References: <383nrg$rqm@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> <3847e3$6t8@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu In article <3847e3$6t8@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>, Loren Koss <loren@mcl.ucsb.edu> wrote: >In <383nrg$rqm@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> hillm@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Michael J Hill) writes: >>the stealth 64). I have now spent about 12 hours trying to get the thing >>to work. When I try to run X the whole system just hangs and I have to >>diamond boards (I think the stealth 64 PCI is fairly new). The man pages >>etc seem to suggest that S3 has the ability to support hte chips on this >>board (i.e the chips are discussed, but this specific board is not), so I >>would like to believe it will work. .............stuff hacked out ...... >PLEASE DON'T TELL ME THAT! I just ordered a Pentium 90 w that board and >it had BETTER work! Spent too much money to now find out that it won't! >I will hopefully not run into the same problems, but please keep me informed! > NOw I am really confused. AT one point I had the stealth 64 working with x in some really anoying mode (like 640 by 480 and 1280x1024 virtual space) and at that point I thought I almost had it working. Now I cant seem to get it back to that mode, or any other working mode. I know nothing is damaged as the dos diagnostic software works, and all the modes it produces come up fine (win 3.1 works fine as well). I decided to try a complete reinstall of the system and x software (Not that big of a deal because I just started messing with the whole thing last week) and I figured this would put me back (at least) with the 640 x 480 situation. It didn't, and I have now tried runing the normal VGA16 driver. This didn't work. Somehow, I think something else must be messed up because the monitor (idek with a lcd freq. display) syncs on a real signal, and that slight glow that comes up on a monitor when the computer is displaying nothing, but it generating a 'blank' picture comes up (i.e you can see the blank 'box' being scanned). Also, at one point, when things weren't working you could exit by cntl alt backspace, and now when it seezes up this doesn't work. So.... I still have hope that it will work... Let me know if you happen to get it. By the way, I really do like the card. The windows 3.1 driver is excellent, and the card itself seems to really fly. Later, Mike Hill